I just try to install FC 4 onto a new system, which is equipped with 2 S-ATA drives (nforce 3 250gb) in a raid setup. Its shuttle case is quite small and the drives are mounted very close to each other. Therefore temperature monitoring is required. Anaconda uses libata to operate the drives. I had to learn, that smartmontools can not monitor the hard drives temperature, because the atalib API is missing the required functionality yet. There is a patch available at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/ but I would have to recompile the kernel. 2 questions: a) is there another way to control HD temp with libata or does someone have a patched kernel/kernel module available? b) is there a way in FC4 to use the traditional ide lib for the drives which is said to support the nforce, too, and which hopefully will allow temp monitoring? Any help appreciated Peter
