[smartmontools-support]Question about SATA drive.

[Steven W. O. <st...@sy...>]

I just bought a new 'puter with one SATA drive. Here's my smartd.conf:

/dev/sda -H -m root

When I tried to start the demon (ver smartmontools-5.33-1.5) I get this in 
syslog:

Feb  3 11:16:34 saturn smartd[25759]: smartd version 5.33 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
Feb  3 11:16:34 saturn smartd[25759]: Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
Feb  3 11:16:34 saturn smartd[25759]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf
Feb  3 11:16:34 saturn smartd[25759]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf parsed.
Feb  3 11:16:34 saturn smartd[25759]: Device: /dev/sda, opened
Feb  3 11:16:34 saturn smartd[25759]: Device /dev/sda, 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.
Feb  3 11:16:34 saturn smartd[25759]: Unable to register SCSI device /dev/sda at line 1 of file /etc/smartd.conf
Feb  3 11:16:34 saturn smartd[25759]: Unable to register device /dev/sda (no Directive -d removable). Exiting.

Does this mean that my SATA drive is not supported? Or is this something 
being worked on? Or not? Or never?

TIA

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