[ltp] Head's up: new Lenovo BIOSes and HD APM (hdparm -B)

James Knott linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 30 May 2006 13:20:24 -0400


Daniel Skorka wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 01:01:17PM -0400, Jiang Qian wrote:
>> Which version of kernel you're using? Did patch it if you're before 
>> version 2.6.14?
> 
> Sorry - stock 2.6.16
> 
>> http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problems_with_SATA_and_Linux#No_SMART_support
>> Also did you try issuing the command
>> smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda
> 
> D'oh. No. I didn't. And it works like a charm.
> Sorry, I usually am not that thickheaded.


How thickheaded are you usually?  ;-)