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 other hand, when starting smartd without any -d > switch for the two drives in smartd.conf, smartd reported that it is > automatically using "-d sat" for ATA disk behind SAT layer. > > 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 a bit confused about which of the two switches, sat or ata, is > the correct one to use. Or maybe it doesn't matter. Any pointers are > appreciated.
SATA drives are ATA drives on a serial interface. -d ata is correct. I haven't heard of, or any experience with -d sat. Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? <erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
