Bug 92041

Summary: [RFE] provided smartctl / smartd seems to be outdated
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: shrek-m <shrek-m>
Component: kernel-utilsAssignee: Dave Jones <davej>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 9CC: ballen, pfrields, p.van.egdom
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OS: Linux   
URL: http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
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Description shrek-m 2003-06-01 19:14:36 UTC
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Description of problem:
the provided  smartctl / smartd  from

http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartsuite/

seems to be outdated
2001-11-13

why do you not replace it with
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

also mentioned in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=76097
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90896

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-utils-2.4-8.29

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. man smartctl
2. man smartd 
3. rpm -qi kernel-utils
4. date
5. http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
    

Actual Results:  wondering

Additional info: