>>> On 1/14/2009 at 22:54:17 EST, Dewey Sasser wrote: > For all three of the latter distros, smarttools work nicely with the > "-d ata" flag added. This works from both command line (smartctl) and > for smartd.
Indeed that does work, and I should have thought of it. I've read those man pages enough times... >>> On 1/15/2009 at 09:56:23 EST, David Allan wrote: > The change causing non-SCSI disks to appear as sdX rather than hdX is not > distro specific, it's a base kernel change. With very new kernels, both > IDE and SATA appear as SCSI disks. There is some information available > online as to why this change was made. Clearly one can choose to use the old driver in a new kernel. Is it possible to build a kernel that has both drivers available as modules and select which one to use at boot time ? > In general, I would use rescue disks from the same distro as the > installed system. An excellent suggestion that I should have tried long ago. It does necessitate having current versions of tools like smartctl and mdadm available from other media (part of why I was using the newer CDs). Thanks everybody. - brian _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
