smartmontools does in fact support SATA disks starting with kernel 2.6.15. Use the '-d ata' argument with SATA disks and it will work fine.
For example: # smartmontools -d ata -a /dev/sda On Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:03, CapSel wrote: > Unfortunately smartmontools does not support SATA disks. Is there any > other tool to check S.M.A.R.T. on this kind of disks? -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list