From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Greaves Subject: Re: sending commands to the SATA drive Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:05:47 +0100 Message-ID: <42660D5B.3000100@dgreaves.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from s2.ukfsn.org ([217.158.120.143]:63949 "EHLO mail.ukfsn.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261469AbVDTIFt (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Apr 2005 04:05:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Laddie Michael C Zarsuelo/adtxp Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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 --