Hi Bruce, On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 06:13:43AM -0600, Bruce Allen wrote: > Guido, > > I think this is only an issue for Debian-specific init scripts. If not, > and any action is needed on my part, please let me know. This is a debian only issue. We have a variable that allows to run: smartctl -s on $DEVICE over a devicelist given in /etc/init.d/smartmontools I wonder if fixing this is really necessary or if we could find a way to autodetect SATA devices and add '-d ata' then, shouldn't be too hard with kernel 2.6's sysfs. What do you think? Cheers, -- Guido