Re: [smartmontools-support]libata support

[John L. <joh...@op...>]

If I'm reading this right its the Intel ICH. Here is my dmesg:

libata version 1.11 loaded.
ata_piix version 1.03
ata_piix: combined mode detected
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0xF000 irq 14
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 84:4003 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4003 88:207f
ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 156301488 sectors: lba48
ata1: dev 1 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 84:4003 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4003 88:207f
ata1: dev 1 ATA, max UDMA/133, 156301488 sectors: lba48
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
ata1: dev 1 configured for UDMA/133
scsi0 : ata_piix
  Vendor: ATA       Model: ST380817AS        Rev: 3.42
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
  Vendor: ATA       Model: ST380013AS        Rev: 3.18
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05

John

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 10:13 -0600, Samuel Flory wrote:
> Brian Morris wrote:
> > Samuel Flory wrote:
> > 
> >>   If you've got a newer kernel, and install smartctl 5.33.  Just try 
> >> "smartctl -a /dev/sda -d ata".
> > 
> > Odd... because as I said I'm running 2.6.12.2 and I already tried this 
> > with the 5.33 I downloaded and built and I get this:
> > 
> >> ) sudo ./smartctl -a /dev/sda -d ata
> >> smartctl version 5.33 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce 
> >> Allen
> >> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
> >>
> >> Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device)
> >>
> >> A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or 
> >> more '-T permissive' options.
> > 
> > Do I need to have something non-standard enabled in the kernel?
> > 
> 
> 
>    Not to my knowledge it just works on the promise, and ich chipsets 
> I've tried.  (I've been told it worked on a Siliconimage board as well.) 
> What chipset are you guys using?  I've got an nforce4 at home I can try.
> 
> smartctl -i /dev/sda
> 
> smartctl version 5.33 [i686-suse-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Device: ATA      Maxtor 7B300S0   Version: BANC
> 
> SATA disks accessed via libata are not currently supported by
> smartmontools. When libata is given an ATA pass-thru ioctl() then an
> additional '-d libata' device type will be added to smartmontools.
> smartctl version 5.33 [i686-suse-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
> 
> 
> smartctl -i /dev/sda -d ata
> 
> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> Device Model:     Maxtor 7B300S0
> Serial Number:    B60TNFWH
> Firmware Version: BANC1E00
> User Capacity:    300,090,728,448 bytes
> Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
> ATA Version is:   7
> ATA Standard is:  ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 0
> Local Time is:    Wed Jul 13 08:52:32 2005 PDT
> SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
> SMART support is: Enabled
> 
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