From: Brett Russ <russb@emc.com>
To: Laddie Michael C Zarsuelo/adtxp <lzarsuelo@adtx.com.ph>
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sending commands to the SATA drive
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 06:26:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42662E6A.6030509@emc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFC848C2D3.F3F922F3-ON48256FE8.002B7BD9@adtx.com.ph>
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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-20 10:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
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