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From: CapSel <capsel@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA raptor failure - why?
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 10:11:48
Message-Id: d03887390605250251o15cb8e47h630f57133d0b8d67@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA raptor failure - why? by Jarry
1 On 5/25/06, Jarry <jarry@×××.net> wrote:
2 > > Unfortunately smartmontools does not support SATA disks.
3 >
4 > More exactly:
5 >
6 > "Smartmontools should work correctly with SATA drives under both
7 > Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels, if you use the standard IDE drivers
8 > in drivers/ide. If you use the new libata drivers, it won't work
9 > correctly because libata doesn't yet support the needed
10 > ATA-passthrough ioctl() calls." (smartmontools.sourceforge.net)
11 >
12 > Jarry
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14 > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
15 >
16 >
17 How to set up a SATA disk to be seen as IDE disk to the kernel?
18 Can this be done by adding something to kernel command line in grub? I
19 used genkernel to compile kernel.
20
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