From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" <prakashkc@gmx.de>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] libata: add ioctls to support SMART
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 04:52:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41343C66.3080804@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41343B2A.80909@gmx.de>
Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote:
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> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-31 8:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-30 15:31 [patch] libata: add ioctls to support SMART John W. Linville
2004-08-30 17:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-30 17:42 ` Andy Warner
2004-08-30 17:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-30 17:35 ` Brad Campbell
2004-08-30 17:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-30 17:47 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-08-30 17:51 ` John W. Linville
2004-08-31 8:47 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-08-31 8:52 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-08-31 8:59 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
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