From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" Subject: Re: [patch] libata: add ioctls to support SMART Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:59:00 +0200 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <41343DD4.8000302@gmx.de> References: <200408301531.i7UFVBg29089@ra.tuxdriver.com> <41336824.1040206@gmx.de> <41343B2A.80909@gmx.de> <41343C66.3080804@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:44956 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S267540AbUHaI7C (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 04:59:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <41343C66.3080804@pobox.com> List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: "John W. Linville" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. ;-) Prakash -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBND3UxU2n/+9+t5gRAl9qAKDzA+TNzFDAwpV+JSSHbrLf8EVZFQCg85Ad b8mJa7ZBgt13V/sT2MRVeiI= =haAQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----