Disk health on SC1425 with a single disk

[Dave Dewey]

Quoting Rob Munsch (rmunsch at solutionsforprogress.com):

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> Hi all,
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> I have the above, and i can't seem to get it to tell me how the disk
> feels.  I tried smartmontools, but it fails.
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> If i explicitly tell it to watch my drive in /etc/default, i see
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> "Enabling S.M.A.R.T. for: /dev/sdaunable to fetch IEC (SMART) mode page
> [unsupported field in scsi command] (failed)."
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> I've seen this noted as a symptom of having a 'troller card in the way,
> allowing no direct access to the drive.  I don't seem to have any RAID
> card in this thing, so i'm wondering what the simplest method of
> acquiring drive health is for this model.  I'm running Debian on the box
> with a mostly-stock 2.6.16 kernel on it.

Smartmontools doesn't work with SATA drives, at least last time I looked at
it a few months ago.