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Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:12:25 -0500
From: Ed Sweetman <safemode2@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: S.M.A.R.T no longer available in 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 with libata
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Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> On Thursday 04 January 2007 01:50, Ed Sweetman wrote:
>   
>> Not sure what went on between 2.6.19-rc5-mm2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 in
>> libata land but SMART is no longer available on my hdds.   I'm assuming
>> this is not the intended behavior.
>>
>> In case this is chipset specific, IDE interface: nVidia Corporation
>> CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
>>
>> I'm using Libata nvidia driver, the drives happen to be sata drives, but
>> even the pata ones no longer report having SMART.
>>     
>
> What program are you trying to use here? As I reported around -rc1 time, 
> hddtemp is broken by 2.6.20-rc but Jens posted a patch to fix it.
>
>   

I must have missed that blurb.   hddtemp is indeed the program I was 
looking at.  And it does seem that it is the only one broken.  Just 
re-installed the other smartctl tools and they do work.  Thanks.
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