Re: SMART problems in 2.6.22

• To: Bruce Allen <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: SMART problems in 2.6.22
• From: Jeff Garzik <[email protected]>
• Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:09:40 -0400
• Cc: Mark Lord <[email protected]>, David Greaves <[email protected]>, Douglas Gilbert <[email protected]>, Tejun Heo <[email protected]>, Alan Cox <[email protected]>, Kai Makisara <[email protected]>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <[email protected]>, Jan Dvorak <[email protected]>, Smartmontools Mailing List <[email protected]>, Klaus Fuerstberger <[email protected]>, Bruce Allen <[email protected]>
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On the base point, libata has never enabled SMART on its own. That's always up to the BIOS, etc.

It's possible that the recent addition of ACPI support will cause disks to be in different modes than previously expected. ACPI supplies ATA taskfiles to be pushed to the disk, and who knows what's in there...

	Jeff



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