* sending commands to the SATA drive
@ 2005-04-20 1:13 Laddie Michael C Zarsuelo/adtxp
2005-04-20 8:05 ` David Greaves
2005-04-20 10:26 ` Brett Russ
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From: Laddie Michael C Zarsuelo/adtxp @ 2005-04-20 1:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: jgarzik, linux-ide
Greetings!
I'm quite new to Linux and I need to create a monitoring program for our
SATA hdd's. I have to be able to send smart status commands to the drive.
Is there a way to do this? I tried the HDIO_DRIVE_CMD in IOCTL but it wont
work. Is there a library function header file that I can include in my
program so that I can access the libata functions and its variables?
regards,
Laddie Zarsuelo
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* Re: sending commands to the SATA drive
2005-04-20 1:13 sending commands to the SATA drive Laddie Michael C Zarsuelo/adtxp
@ 2005-04-20 8:05 ` David Greaves
2005-04-20 10:26 ` Brett Russ
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: David Greaves @ 2005-04-20 8:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Laddie Michael C Zarsuelo/adtxp; +Cc: jgarzik, linux-ide
Laddie Michael C Zarsuelo/adtxp wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I'm quite new to Linux and I need to create a monitoring program for our
> SATA hdd's. I have to be able to send smart status commands to the drive.
AFAIK this isn't yet supported in the released version of libata.
It is however in the dev version and in need of some testing.
Search the list archives for
* libata-dev
* ATA passthru (a.k.a. SMART) support
Look for messages Jeff Garzik and John W. Linville
HTH
David
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* Re: sending commands to the SATA drive
2005-04-20 1:13 sending commands to the SATA drive Laddie Michael C Zarsuelo/adtxp
2005-04-20 8:05 ` David Greaves
@ 2005-04-20 10:26 ` Brett Russ
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Brett Russ @ 2005-04-20 10:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Laddie Michael C Zarsuelo/adtxp; +Cc: jgarzik, linux-ide
Laddie Michael C Zarsuelo/adtxp wrote:
> I'm quite new to Linux and I need to create a monitoring program for our
> SATA hdd's. I have to be able to send smart status commands to the drive.
> Is there a way to do this? I tried the HDIO_DRIVE_CMD in IOCTL but it wont
> work. Is there a library function header file that I can include in my
> program so that I can access the libata functions and its variables?
Look into smartmontools at http://smartmontools.sf.net/ It's both a
monitoring daemon (smartd) and a command line utility program
(smartctl). It uses a combination of ioctls including HDIO_DRIVE_CMD,
HDIO_DRIVE_TASK, and HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE if I remember correctly.
BR
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