Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:50:46 +0100 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1 |
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On Tue, Dec 19 2006, Jens Axboe wrote: > 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?
smartctl fine for me, with and without the patch.
-- Jens Axboe
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