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SubjectRe: Linux 2.6.20-rc1
On Tue, Dec 19 2006, Robert Hancock wrote:
> Jens Axboe wrote:
> >Just noticed that most of the mails I wrote on this thread were
> >apparently without linux-kernel cc'ed (dunno who removed the cc). So
> >I'll write a small summary - the problem is that hddtemp includes some
> >fragile code to check the sense info, and this commit:
> >
> >http://git.kernel.dk/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=commit;h=f38621b3109068adc8430bc2d170ccea59df4261
> >
> >broke it. hddtemp expects 14, but it now sees 12. IMHO hddtemp is buggy
> >and should be fixed, the best option is simply to kill the sense checks
> >as I think they have little (if any) value. Patch below for that.
> >
> >So the problem was never the SG_IO changes, the fact that somebody
> >noticed the same thing in bugzilla for a 2.6.19-rc6-mm kernel backs that
> >up.
>
> From what I've seen it appears that smartctl has the same problem, it
> was also reporting the device didn't support SMART..

Can you check whether reverting the above commit makes SMART work again?

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Jens Axboe

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