Bug 174095

Summary:	"-d ata" is missing in smartd.conf for SATA HDDs
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bernd Bartmann <bernd.bartmann>
Component:	smartmontools	Assignee:	Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
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Description Bernd Bartmann 2005-11-24 14:29:13 UTC

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Description of problem:
FC5T1 now finally contains a kernel that supports S.M.A.R.T. command passthru for SATA HDDs via libata. To use this feature the option "-d ata" has to be added to each line in /etc/smartd.conf that lists an SATA HDD otherwise smartd won't start.

I've verified the correct behaviour of S.M.A.R.T. command passthru using "smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda" on my system.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. try to use smartctl / smartd on a SATA HDD
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Additional info:

Comment 1 Tomas Mraz 2005-11-24 14:47:37 UTC

Great, do you know of any easy and reliable way how to detect libata devices
among the regular SCSI ones?

Comment 2 Bernd Bartmann 2005-11-24 14:52:10 UTC

Hmm, good question. In /proc/scsi/scsi you'll always see "Vendor: ATA". Maybe
this helps. I don't know if libata perhaps has more extended interface to /proc
were one could get this information.

Comment 3 Tomas Mraz 2005-11-24 16:25:47 UTC

Also do you know which oldest kernel version is required for this to work?

Comment 4 Bernd Bartmann 2005-11-24 16:34:43 UTC

The functionality seems to be introduced with kernel patch-2.6.15-rc1 which is
included in the FC5T1 kernel. I don't know in which rawhide kernel version this
first appeared, but it definitely does not work with the latest FC4 errata
kernel-2.6.14-1.1637_FC4.

Comment 5 Tomas Mraz 2005-11-24 17:34:57 UTC

I suppose it could be detected with 'cat /sys/module/libata/version' >= 1.20

However -rc1 patch has probably still 1.12 - the same as 2.6.14.

But it shouldn't be a problem as soon as -rc2 is in rawhide.