SATA drives and smartmontools.

[Carsten Aulbert]

Adam Funk wrote:

> Will it change the /dev/ names of hard drives and partitions?

>From my experience yes, but this is only with two systems. After
enabling the legacy mode, /dev/sda transforms to /dev/hda.

Have you tried using the libata directly (with a kernel version 2.6.15
or newer)?

smartctl -a -data /dev/sda

should usually work fine without the legacy mode.

HTH

Carsten