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 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.
And the smartctl(8) man page says '-d ata' (at least when using libata): For SATA disks accessed with libata, use "/dev/sd[a-z]" and append "-d ata".
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