On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 11:28:49AM +0100, Jurjen Oskam wrote: > Hi there, > > I suspect that the harddrive in my new Thinkpad T61p (dmesg below) is > failing, so I tried to examine its SMART statistics. I encountered two > problems. I'm using OpenBSD 4.2-RELEASE (amd64). > > The first problem was that I couldn't get atactl to work. The command: > > # atactl sd0c smartstatus > > results in: > > atactl: ATAIOCCOMMAND failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
I've never tried on OpenBSD. What happens if you just use sd0 (the drive itself) instead of sd0c (the entire drive space as a partition)? In the same way that you run disklabel on the drive not the 'c' partition. Doug.
