> Nobody cares to reply on this fact? > > I have been puzzled about the statement that > smartmontools do not support ata or sata disks since > I found a bunch of ppl on the net giving logs of > smartctl clearly stating it is a sata disk. > > So what is the deal? > Smartmontools only support sata addon cards? and not > the onboard sata controllers?
The SATA framework on x86 Solaris that supports all x86 SATA drivers uses the SCSI layer behind the scenes. If you need to retrieve SMART information from your SATA drives on Solaris you could try switching your SATA controller into IDE mode, if it supports it. This would mean Solaris would use the pci-ide driver instead which would allow you to use smartmontools to interrogate the drives. Cheers Andrew. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
