At the moement gentoo-sources (2.6.x) do not support S.M.A.R.T. for sata-drives. There is a patch that enables this for these drives which can be found at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/. Parts of the patch seem to have been included in gentoo-sources already, as some instances of the patch did not apply 100% clean. I believe the S.M.A.R.T.-part oft the patch can also be inlcuded in gentoo-sources. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Apply the patch mentioned above. Actual Results: S.M.A.R.T. works, eg. together with >=hddtemp-0.3-beta13 temperatures of sata drives can be monitored. I have tested this with gentoo-sources-2.6.11-r7 (for about 4 weeks) and gentoo-sources-2.6.11-r11 (since 1 week) on amd64. No problems of any kind occured during that time. I have a software raid 5, if that might be of interest.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 91972 ***
This is not a duplicate. HERE, a patch is requested to be applied to gentoo-sources, in 96627 an ebuild is requested. The ebuild does not at all depend on the patch. hddtemp work without it on normal ide harddiscs.
I've CCed kernel in the other bug, but as you wish. Just please don't post the same to both bugs, not really needed at all.
We tend to avoid feature patches in gentoo-sources. I suggest that you email the maintainer and let him know that the functionality seems to work and see if there is anything you can do to help it get submitted to the Linux development tree.
I had the same need (as many others) - to read temperature and other SMART info from my SATA hard drives to early detect failure. Applied libdata patch on gentoo sources 2.6.11-r6, 2.6.11-r7 and 2.6.11-r11 on my desktop box and my server. Everything works just fine for more then a month (server is up 24/7). It seems to me as a VERY usefull feature, so pleace consider adding it to gentoo-sources patch-set. smartctl version 5.33 [x86_64-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: ST3250823AS Serial Number: 3ND0LNG3 Firmware Version: 3.02 User Capacity: 250,059,350,016 bytes Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 7 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is: Mon Jun 20 22:59:42 2005 CEST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity was completed without error. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: ( 430) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. No Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 84) minutes. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 056 055 006 Pre-fail Always - 11552490 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 098 098 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 18 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 072 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 16914598 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1140 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 26 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 033 040 000 Old_age Always - 33 (Lifetime Min/Max 0/23) 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 056 055 000 Old_age Always - 11552490 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 202 TA_Increase_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 1075 - # 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 909 - # 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 849 - SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May 12 2005, 02:04:49)] distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe -frename-registers -fweb -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/users/tnt/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.etf.bg.ac.yu/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 acpi apache2 berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups curl encode exif extensions font-server fortran gd gif gpm imagemagick imap jabber jp2 jpeg libwww logrotate lzw lzw-tiff maildir mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly oggvorbis pam pam-mysql perl php png python readline rrdtool samba sasl slang snmp ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales wmf xml2 xpm xrandr zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS