> is it possible to monitor SATA disks with smart? > sys-apps/smartmontools can not read smart on that disks.
You have to tell smartmontools, that it's actually an ATA disk. SATA devices show up as SCSI devices, but the protocol is still ATA. So this can be done with the "-d ata" switch - also see /etc/smartd.conf. BUT: recent versions of smartmontools can recognize SATA disks. No need for -d ata anymore! smartmontools-5.37 (which is still ~x86 and ~amd64) correctly SATA disks in all my computers.
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