On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 17:49 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:
My motherboard is configured so the SATA drives show up as ahci
devices
rather than legacy ide devices, fedora itself recognises the disks OK,
however smartd fails to start.
I did some investigation with smartctl and found that it was necessary
to use
smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sda
with the "-d ata" being required to make it use libata, so I modified
the entries in /etc/smartd.conf to also have the "-d ata"
/dev/sda -d ata -H -m root@localhost
/dev/sdb -d ata -H -m root@localhost
now smartd is happy.
I'm not sure if anaconda (or something else) should have have recognised
the ahci devices at install time and made appropriate entries in
/etc/smartd.conf, in which case I should file a bug, or if this is
something the user should expect to have to configure, in which case
hopefully this message might help someone else out ...
Smartd is configured through the smartd-conf.py script automatically
when /etc/smartd.conf doesn't exist. The latest rawhide smarttools
package should configure the SATA drives with '-d ata' fine.
However if the smartd.conf exists when smartd is started it won't be
overwritten and in such case it must be manually reconfigured by user.
--
Tomas Mraz <tmraz(a)redhat.com>