Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 31 Aug 2004 04:52:54 -0400 | | From | Jeff Garzik <> | | Subject | Re: [patch] libata: add ioctls to support SMART |
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Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote: > | John W. Linville wrote: > | | Support for HDIO_DRIVE_CMD and HDIO_DRIVE_TASK in libata. Useful for > | | supporting SMART w/ unmodified smartctl and smartd userland binaries. > ~ > I just tried to give it a go with libata from 2.6.9-rc1. I had to fix > | one rejects but the patching seemed to go fine beside that. Nevertheless > | after a boot with patched libata I get: > | > | smartctl -a /dev/sda > [snip] > > | Device does not support SMART > > Just wanted > > Just wanted to say that smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sda works, as John > Linville and now Bruce aLlen suggested to try.
As I noted in another email, be careful... that patch bypasses the SCSI command synchronization, so you could potentially send a SMART command to the hardware while another command is still in progress.
Jeff
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