Crash Recovery Kit for Linux 2.6.11.10 released

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Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 07:56:19 +0200 (CEST)
From: Robert M. Stockmann <stock@stokkie.net>
To: lwn@lwn.net
Subject: Crash Recovery Kit for Linux 2.6.11.10 (X86_64/AMD64) released


Hi,

I want to announce here the availability of the 
Crash Recovery Kit for Linux 2.6.11.10 (X86_64/AMD64)
with S.M.A.R.T. monitoring support using smartmontools 5.33 
which also can monitor SATA drives using kernel 2.6.11.10.

See also freshmeat : http://freshmeat.net/releases/196446/

Download is at :
http://crashrecovery.org/CrashRecoveryKit/x86_64/iso/2.6....
ftp://ftp.crashrecovery.org/pub/linux/CrashRecoveryKit/x8...

HOWTO is at :
http://crashrecovery.org/CrashRecoveryKit/x86_64/iso/2.6....

Homepage is at : http://crashrecovery.org/

Here's what my Seagate 120Gb SATA drive reports :

		S.M.A.R.T. the smartmontools have been added. The kernel
		has been patched with the 2.6.11-libata-dev1.patch.bz2
		by Jeff Garzik which also makes S.M.A.R.T. monitoring of
		SATA drives possible:

		# smartctl -i -d ata /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.33 [x86_64-mandrake-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     ST3120026AS
Serial Number:    3JT4KENT
Firmware Version: 3.18
User Capacity:    120,034,123,776 bytes
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   6
ATA Standard is:  ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 2
Local Time is:    Tue May 17 13:30:18 2005 UTC
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled


Robert
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Robert M. Stockmann - RHCE
Network Engineer - UNIX/Linux Specialist
crashrecovery.org  stock@stokkie.net