On Tue, Dec 19 2006, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 19 2006, Robert Hancock wrote:
> > Jens Axboe wrote:
> > >Just noticed that most of the mails I wrote on this thread were
> > >apparently without linux-kernel cc'ed (dunno who removed the cc). So
> > >I'll write a small summary - the problem is that hddtemp includes some
> > >fragile code to check the sense info, and this commit:
> > >
> > >http://git.kernel.dk/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=commit;h=f38621b3109068adc8430bc2d170ccea59df4261
> > >
> > >broke it. hddtemp expects 14, but it now sees 12. IMHO hddtemp is buggy
> > >and should be fixed, the best option is simply to kill the sense checks
> > >as I think they have little (if any) value. Patch below for that.
> > >
> > >So the problem was never the SG_IO changes, the fact that somebody
> > >noticed the same thing in bugzilla for a 2.6.19-rc6-mm kernel backs that
> > >up.
> >
> > From what I've seen it appears that smartctl has the same problem, it
> > was also reporting the device didn't support SMART..
>
> Can you check whether reverting the above commit makes SMART work again?
smartctl fine for me, with and without the patch.
--
Jens Axboe
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