Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:59:00 +0200 | From | "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" <> | Subject | Re: [patch] libata: add ioctls to support SMART |
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Jeff Garzik wrote: | Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote: |> 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.
Yup, I read your warning, so I won't run a background monitor. In fact jusr gave it a quick try and saw all is fine and then I am not going to touch it for now. ;-)
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