Re: SATA disk smart or not?

[Matthias Julius <lists@julius-net.net>]

Justin Guerin <jguerin@cso.atmel.com> writes:

> According to a comment from "sensovision from WKey" on page 
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6983, 
> "Unfortunately right now official libata library in kernel doesn't support 
> ATA-passthrough calls and the only way to check SMART status right now is 
> to use patches like this: 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/

I believe this functionality has been added in kernel 2.6.15 (or was
it 2.6.16?)

Matthias