On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:

Jeff, thanks for the quick feedback.

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> On the base point, libata has never enabled SMART on its own.  That's 
> always up to the BIOS, etc.

OK, clear.

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> It's possible that the recent addition of ACPI support will cause disks 
> to be in different modes than previously expected.  ACPI supplies ATA 
> taskfiles to be pushed to the disk, and who knows what's in there...

Is there a simple way I can have affected users test this?  Is there a 
kernel boot flag or sysctl setting or something else they can use to 
disable the ACPI stuff so see if the problem then goes away?

Cheers,
 	Bruce
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