Re: SMART -d ata or -d sat
2009/3/13 Norbert Zeh <nzeh@cs.dal.ca>:
> Hi Debianites,
>
> I have just installed smartmontools on my Lenny box and am using smartd
> to monitor two SATA IDE drives. I've read on the web that the right
> option to use for such a drive is "-d ata" to force smartd to treat it
> as an ATA drive. On the other hand, when starting smartd without any -d
> switch for the two drives in smartd.conf, smartd reported that it is
> automatically using "-d sat" for ATA disk behind SAT layer.
>
> 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.
Adrian
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