On Tue, Dec 19 2006, Robert Hancock wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > >Just noticed that most of the mails I wrote on this thread were > >apparently without linux-kernel cc'ed (dunno who removed the cc). So > >I'll write a small summary - the problem is that hddtemp includes some > >fragile code to check the sense info, and this commit: > > > >http://git.kernel.dk/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=commit;h=f38621b3109068adc8430bc2d170ccea59df4261 > > > >broke it. hddtemp expects 14, but it now sees 12. IMHO hddtemp is buggy > >and should be fixed, the best option is simply to kill the sense checks > >as I think they have little (if any) value. Patch below for that. > > > >So the problem was never the SG_IO changes, the fact that somebody > >noticed the same thing in bugzilla for a 2.6.19-rc6-mm kernel backs that > >up. > > From what I've seen it appears that smartctl has the same problem, it > was also reporting the device didn't support SMART..
Can you check whether reverting the above commit makes SMART work again? -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
