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Hi Claudio, > By the way, right now smartctl doesn't seem to work at all with SATA > using the libata drivers, because AFAIK libata hasn't been taught to > pass through the required S.M.A.R.T commands to the drive yet. Jeff Garzik intends to add a passthru ioctl to libata, specifically for applications like smartmontools. As soon as he's done this, we'll add another '-d sata' device type to utilize that ioctl(). > Does anyone know how difficult is this to code, or if it is necessary > to change the scsi layer as well as libata? I'm willing to assist in > testing any patches to add the possibility of using smartmontools with > libata drivers. I don't know the answer but suspect that the scsi layer can handle this 'as is'. In fact the 3ware support in smartmontools passes all commands through the scsi layer. I appreciate the offer to act as a tester -- you'll probably hear from me when this work is in progress, to take you up on it. Cheers, Bruce - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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