Using FC3: four outstanding problems and a search suggestion

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo]

Robin Laing wrote:

> Markku Kolkka wrote:
>
>> fergus kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika perjantai, 24. kesäkuuta 
>> 2005 12:35):
>>
>>> 2. On booting up smartd always fails. It's the only thing that
>>> does. I don't know how to make it work, and, as a less
>>> powerful solution but one that would likewise suppress this
>>> nagging announcement, I don't know what initialisation file to
>>> tweak so that no attempt is even made to use it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Do you have SATA hard disks? Smartd doesn't support SATA (because 
>> SATA drivers don't support it) so it always fails in a SATA system. 
>> "chkconfig --level 2345 smartd off" will turn it off. Otherwise, edit 
>> /etc/smartd.conf
>>
>
> If smartd doesn't work with SATA drives, what should we be using?
>
smartd ;)

SATA disks *do* support SMART , but the current implementation of libata 
(if I'm not getting confused) cant send SMART commands to SATA disks 
yet.  When that is fixed,  smartd will be able to work with SATA disks.

--
Pedro Macedo