[NBLUG/talk] Recommendations for journalling filesystems?

Troy Arnold troy at zenux.net
Wed Aug 2 01:16:59 PDT 2006


On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 10:46:16AM -0700, Augie Schwer wrote:
> 
> Yeah, but when are the Smartmontools going to support SATA?

You need the '-d ata' option:
$ smartctl -a /dev/sda -d ata

smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 and 7200.7 Plus family
Device Model:     ST3200822AS
Serial Number:    3LJ157ML
Firmware Version: 3.01
User Capacity:    200,049,647,616 bytes
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   6

[ ... ]


> http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/#testinghelp

"Smartmontools should work correctly with SATA drives under both Linux 2.4
and 2.6 kernels, if you use the standard IDE drivers in drivers/ide. If you
use the new libata drivers, it won't work correctly because libata doesn't
yet support the needed ATA-passthrough ioctl() calls. Jeff Garzik, the
libata developer, says that this support will be added to libata in the
future."

That info is old.  I'm using libata here, have been with smartd for...many
kernels now.

According to this: <http://linux-ata.org/software-status.html#smart>
you'll need 2.6.15+

-t




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