[Beowulf] Re: failure trends in a large disk drive population

[Douglas Gilbert]

Eugen Leitl wrote:

> over consumer SATA. Btw -- smartd doesn't seem to be able to handle
> SATA, at least, last time I tried.
>
> 	http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/#testinghelp
>
> How do you folks gather data on them?

Eugen,
That FAQ entry is about 2 years out of date. smartmontools
support for SATA disks behind a SCSI to ATA Translation (SAT)
layer is now much better. Please try the recently released
version 5.37 of smartmontools.

I have updated that entry in the FAQ with more up-to-date
information and the new entry should become visible soon.

Doug Gilbert