On Friday 10 August 2007, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > 2 - I want to use smartctl, but: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] solomon]# smartctl -i /dev/sdb > smartctl version 5.36 [i586-mandriva-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce > Allen > Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ > > Device: ATA WDC WD2500KS-00M Version: 02.0 > Serial number: WD-WCANK8275024 > Device type: disk > Local Time is: Fri Aug 10 11:45:24 2007 IDT > Device does not support SMART > > The disk does support SMART and it's also enabled in the BIOS. What's going > on?
When using smartctl with a sata drive you may have to specify manually that it's a sata drive and not a real SCSI one, try adding the -d ata parameter. I've had to do this on the Gentoo 2007.0 install CD, which IIRC uses a 2.6.19 kernel. However, it's not required on 2.6.22 with smartmontools 5.37. So if this helps try using a newer kernel or smartmontools. -- Dan Armak ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
