Re: smartmonitor-tools not working with sata drives

[Mike Mironov <mikemiron@tochka.ru>]

Harm Behrens wrote:
> > > the hardware setup:
> > >
> > > - mobo: Asus A8N-SLI
> > > - 2 sata harddrives: 300 GB Samsung 300 GB
> > > - kernel: 2.6.8-12-amd64-k8
> > Just upgrade your kernel to 2.6.15 or more.
>
> there is no kernel 2.6.15 in the amd64-sarge repositery! And as this is an 
> production-server I don't like to compile myself!
>
> harm-?

2.6.16 have in backports and testing.

http://linux-ata.org/software-status.html wrote:

> SMART support
> With the integration of ATA passthru in kernel 2.6.15, SMART is fully 
> supported in the standard libata driver.

So your need 2.6.15 or more kernel.