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File README.SATA of Package smartmontools
README for S.M.A.R.T. on SATA discs Smartmontools should work correctly with SATA drives under both Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels, if you use the standard IDE drivers. If you use libata drivers, you need new enough kernel. For older versions it won't work correctly because libata didn't support the needed ATA-passthrough ioctl() calls. For more read http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/. If you select in the BIOS that the SATA controller should operate in legacy mode, then the IDE driver will grab it for itself and won't let libata use it. If, however the IDE driver doesn't support your particular SATA controller, or the controller doesn't have a legacy interface at all, then only libata can be used. As far as we know, the IDE driver only works on Intel, VIA and nVidia controllers.
