From: Volker K. <lis...@pa...> - 2005-12-11 18:23:09
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My turn to ask a FAQ: What is the story about SATA disks exactly? The BIOS in question doesn't have anything which looks like SATA legacy IDE support (wouldn't this cost performance anyway?). Smartmontools gives me # smartctl -d ata /dev/sda smartctl version 5.33 [x86_64-unknown-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) Same with -i. Trying the "CVS" version (cvs ... co sm5; ./autogen.sh; ./configure ...; make) makes no difference: # ./smartctl -i -d ata /dev/sda smartctl version 5.34 [x86_64-suse-linux] Copyright (C) 2002-5 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device) There's no -d sata. All on the not very old SUSE Linux 10.0, which is a vendor-enhanced kernel 2.6.13. The FAQ answer seems to be "when libsata supports it". That was over a year ago though, surely it must be about time now??? What's the status on this? Is there any way to get this working at all now, and what would be the least invasive way to do it? Thanks, Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. |
From: Bruce A. <ba...@gr...> - 2005-12-11 18:41:39
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Volker, I have heard reports that if you use the latest 2.6.15 kernel source then smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sda will work. I updated smartmontools CVS with this info. Cheers, Bruce On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > My turn to ask a FAQ: What is the story about SATA disks exactly? > > The BIOS in question doesn't have anything which looks like SATA legacy > IDE support (wouldn't this cost performance anyway?). Smartmontools > gives me > > # smartctl -d ata /dev/sda > smartctl version 5.33 [x86_64-unknown-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) > > Same with -i. > Trying the "CVS" version (cvs ... co sm5; ./autogen.sh; ./configure ...; > make) makes no difference: > > # ./smartctl -i -d ata /dev/sda > smartctl version 5.34 [x86_64-suse-linux] Copyright (C) 2002-5 Bruce Allen > Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ > > Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device) > > There's no -d sata. All on the not very old SUSE Linux 10.0, which is a > vendor-enhanced kernel 2.6.13. The FAQ answer seems to be "when libsata > supports it". That was over a year ago though, surely it must be about > time now??? What's the status on this? Is there any way to get this > working at all now, and what would be the least invasive way to do it? > > Thanks, > > Volker > > -- > Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header > http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Smartmontools-support mailing list > Sma...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/smartmontools-support > |
From: Volker K. <lis...@pa...> - 2005-12-11 22:53:33
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On Mon 12 Dec 2005 07:41:34 NZDT +1300, Bruce Allen wrote: > Volker, I have heard reports that if you use the latest 2.6.15 kernel > source then smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sda will work. I updated > smartmontools CVS with this info. Ok, thanks Bruce. Upgrading to the latest vanilla kernel is rather invasive though and mighn't be terribly good for stability. When I find time I might try to update only the libsata part. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. |