Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:11:30 -0500
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: S.M.A.R.T no longer available in 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 with libata
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On Thursday 04 January 2007 17:12, Ed Sweetman wrote:
>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.
>
Which I believe must already be in -rc3.  I just started it after 
configuring it, restarted gkrellm and there they all were.  But I haven't 
tried any earlier kernels with it either.


>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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