My uderstanding from Adam Radford (author of the 3w-xxxx and 3w-9xxx drivers for 3ware/AMCC cards) is that at some point he would eliminate ATA passthru support from the /dev/sd* devices. This may be why the character device interface still works but the /dev/sd* interface does not.
Adam, care to comment? Bruce On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Guido Guenther wrote: > Hi Ralf, > On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 03:08:39AM +0200, Ralf Heiringhoff wrote: > > Package: smartmontools > > Version: 5.33-1 > > Followup-For: Bug #283747 > > -----cut---- > > > > Well I own a 3ware 7810-8 and querying /dev/sdb totally seemed to stop > > working for me, while /dev/twe0 works. > > > > -----cut---- > Stopped working since when exactly? Upgrading to .33? Could you try a > vanilla kernel please? This might be related to 292893. > Cheers, > -- Guido > > > -- Package-specific info: > > Ouput of /usr/share/bug/smartmontools: > > # CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL is not set > > > > -- System Information: > > Debian Release: 3.1 > > APT prefers testing > > APT policy: (500, 'testing') > > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686-smp > > Locale: LANG=C, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=UTF-8) > > > > Versions of packages smartmontools depends on: > > ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared > > libraries an > > > > -- no debconf information > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
