Re: SMART -d ata or -d sat

2009-03-13 Thread Norbert Zeh
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SMART -d ata or -d sat

2009-03-12 Thread Norbert Zeh
Hi Debianites, I have just installed smartmontools on my Lenny box and am using smartd to monitor two SATA IDE drives. I've read on the web that the right option to use for such a drive is -d ata to force smartd to treat it as an ATA drive. On the other hand, when starting smartd without any -d

Re: SMART -d ata or -d sat

2009-03-12 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/3/13 Norbert Zeh n...@cs.dal.ca: Hi Debianites, I have just installed smartmontools on my Lenny box and am using smartd to monitor two SATA IDE drives.  I've read on the web that the right option to use for such a drive is -d ata to force smartd to treat it as an ATA drive.  On the

Re: SMART -d ata or -d sat

2009-03-12 Thread green
Adrian Levi wrote at 2009-03-12 18:55 -0600: 2009/3/13 Norbert Zeh n...@cs.dal.ca: smartd does not complain with either, -d sat or -d ata.  The only difference is that, in the first case, it reports to be monitoring two SCSI drives, while in the latter it says they're ATA drives. So I'm