Updating system requirements

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Updating system requirements
4f2cfcc5 · ballen4705 · fccbabfe · 4f2cfcc5 · 4f2cfcc5
Commit 4f2cfcc5 authored 21 years ago by ballen4705
--- a/sm5/INSTALL
+++ b/sm5/INSTALL
 Smartmontools installation instructions
 =======================================
-$Id: INSTALL,v 1.39 2004/04/02 19:57:21 ballen4705 Exp $
+$Id: INSTALL,v 1.40 2004/04/02 20:09:13 ballen4705 Exp $
 Please also see the smartmontools home page:
 http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
@@ -44,10 +44,14 @@ Table of contents:
    For item (1) above, any 2.4 or 2.6 series kernel will provide
    HDIO_DRIVE_TASK support.  Some 2.2.20 and later kernels also
    provide this support IF they're properly patched and
-    configured. If the configuration option CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL
+    configured. [Andre Hedrick's IDE patches may be found at
+    http://www.funet.fi/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ide-2.2.20/ or
+    are available from your local kernel.org mirror.  They are not
+    updated for 2.2.21 or later, and may contain a few bugs.]
+  . If the configuration option CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL
    exists in your 2.2.X kernel source code tree, then your 2.2.X
    kernel will probably support this ioctl. [Note that this kernel
-    configuration option does not need to be enabled. Its presence
+    configuration option does NOT need to be enabled. Its presence
    merely indicates that the required HDIO_DRIVE_TASK ioctl() is
    supported.]
@@ -55,13 +59,13 @@ Table of contents:
    configuration option CONFIG_IDE_TASKFILE_IO enabled.  This
    configuration option is present in all 2.4 and 2.6 series
    kernels. Some 2.2.20 and later kernels also provide this support
-    IF they're properly patched and configured
+    IF they're properly patched and configured as described above.
    Please see FAQ section of the URL above for additional details.
    If you are using 3ware controllers, for full functionality you
    must either use version 1.02.00.037 or greater of the 3w-xxxx
-    driver, or patch earlier 3ware 3w-xxxx drivers.  See:
+    driver, or patch earlier 3ware 3w-xxxx drivers.  See
    http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/3w-xxxx.txt
    for the patch.  The version 1.02.00.037 3w-xxxx.c driver was
    incorporated into kernel 2.4.23-bk2 on 3 December 2003 and into
@@ -78,7 +82,7 @@ Table of contents:
    C) Solaris
    The SCSI code has been tested on a variety of Solaris 8 and 9
-    systems.  ATA/IDE code works only on SPARC platform.  All tested
+    systems.  ATA/IDE code only works on SPARC platform.  All tested
    kernels worked correctly.
    D) NetBSD

--- a/www/index.html
+++ b/www/index.html
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
 <head>
- <title>smartmontools Home Page (last updated $Date: 2004/03/20 11:55:11 $)</title>
+ <title>smartmontools Home Page (last updated $Date: 2004/04/02 20:09:13 $)</title>
 <link rev="made" href="mailto:smartmontools-support&#64;sourceforge.net" />
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
 <meta name="description" content="smartmontools Home Page" />
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 </head>
 <body>
-<!-- $Id: index.html,v 1.138 2004/03/20 11:55:11 ballen4705 Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: index.html,v 1.139 2004/04/02 20:09:13 ballen4705 Exp $ -->
 <div align="center"><h1><font color="#3333ff">smartmontools Home Page</font></h1></div>
 <p>Welcome! This is the home page for the smartmontools package.</p> 
@@ -314,30 +314,12 @@ attributes, please send an email to <a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailma
 smartmontools-support</a> and we'll help you try and figure it
 out.</p></li>
-<li><b>What Kernel Version is needed? (Linux)</b>
+<li><b>What are the operating system requirements?</b>
 <p>
-Kernel versions 2.4.0 or later should work. We recommend the latest
-2.4 kernel.</p>
+Please see the first section of the <a
-<p>
+href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/smartmontools/sm5/INSTALL?view=markup">INSTALL</a>
-Vanilla kernel.org 2.2.X kernels do not support the HDIO_DRIVE_TASK
+file.
-ioctl(), which is needed for the ATA drive to execute the ATA SMART
-RETURN STATUS command. So these kernels will not work.</p>
-<p>
-Vendor-supplied 2.2.X kernels, and vanilla 2.2.X kernels patched with
-<a href="http://www.funet.fi/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ide-2.2.20/">Andre
-Hedrick's IDE patches</a> (available from your local kernel.org
-mirror, not updated for 2.2.21 or later, and probably still containing
-a few bugs) may support the needed ioctl().</p>
-<p>
-If the configuration option CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL exists in your 2.2.X
-kernel source code tree, then your 2.2.X kernel will probably support
-smartmontools.  Note that this kernel configuration option does
-<i>not</i> need to be enabled. Its presence merely indicates that the
-required HDIO_DRIVE_TASK ioctl() is supported.</p>
-<p>
-If you are using a 3ware RAID controller, please see below for information
-about the correct <tt>3w-xxxx</tt> module/driver version.</p>
-</li>
 <li><b>What Attributes does smartmontools not yet recognize?</b>
@@ -1014,8 +996,8 @@ from smartmontools smartctl utility:</b>
 Maintained by: <a href="mailto:smartmontools-support&#64;lists.sourceforge.net">Bruce Allen</a><br />
 Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen<br />
-Last updated: <tt>$Date: 2004/03/20 11:55:11 $</tt><br />
+Last updated: <tt>$Date: 2004/04/02 20:09:13 $</tt><br />
-CVS tag: <tt>$Id: index.html,v 1.138 2004/03/20 11:55:11 ballen4705 Exp $</tt>
+CVS tag: <tt>$Id: index.html,v 1.139 2004/04/02 20:09:13 ballen4705 Exp $</tt>
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