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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