On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Mark Lord wrote:
Kai Makisara wrote:
The command 'smartctl -a /dev/sdb' fails with 2.6.22-rc4 kernel. The disk
/dev/sdb is a SATA disk. The command does work still with a real SCSI disk.
Last time I checked, one must supply the "-d ata" parameter to smartctl
for it to work with libata drives. Has this changed?
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Wow, apparently it has, I just tried it here:
p34:~# smartctl -a /dev/sda | head -n 5
smartctl version 5.37 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6
Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Western Digital Raptor family
.. [snip] ..
p34:~# echo $?
0
p34:~#
Normally you always had to use the -d ata parameter.
Justin.
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