Re: [smartmontools-support]Smartmontools and SATA libsata Support

[Bruce A. <ba...@gr...>]

John,

Good question -- I don't know if/how the SATA support has been backported 
to the 2.4 kernel.  Can someone else on the list tell us?

Cheers,
 	Bruce

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 jo...@au... wrote:

>
> I understand from a previous message back in February that smartmon is
> capable of supporting libsata (SATA) drives if you are using kernel 2.6.15,
> with the -d ata option.
>
> I could be mistaken but I didn't see any mention about 2.4.X kernel.  Did
> the passthu code needed by smartd get put into the 2.4.X baseline?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -John.
>
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