ATA with SMART

ATA with SMART

[Ana Yuseepi]

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Hello everyone,
 
I would like to send some SMART commands in linux. One of the command I'd like to send is return_smart_status and I needed some extra data that the device would return in Cylinder_Low and Cylinder_High registers. 
 
I have tried to use the HDIO_DRIVE_CMD, but I think this can't help me with the above operation.
 
I tried using the inw_p and outw_p, inb_p, outb_p, but with these, i usually receive the "lost interrupt" message.
 
Does anyone here have suggestions on what i should do?

Please reply, and thank you for your time,

-Ana
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Re: ATA with SMART

[Ana Yuseepi]

Hello, first of all, thank you for your replies.. :)

All of the reply I received asked me to take a look at the smartsuite program. I have already taken a look at those, but those doesn't help my problem. It had a support for RETURN_SMART_STATUS command, but only the status_register is returned. The value in cylinder_high and cylinder_low is not returned. So, this is of no use to me.

Any other idea? 

Thanks a lot,

-Ana





----- Original Message -----
From: Dima Brodsky <dima@cs.ubc.ca>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 07:44:06 -0700
To: Ana Yuseepi <anayuseepi@asia.com>
Subject: Re: ATA with SMART


> Hi,
> 
> Take a look at the smartsuite set of utilities:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartsuite/
> 
> They are used to control the SMART functionality of a
> drive.  There is probably example code there to do what
> you want.
> 
> ttyl
> Dima
> 
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 01:24:02AM -0500, Ana Yuseepi wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >  
> > I would like to send some SMART commands in linux. One of the command I'd like to send is return_smart_status and I needed some extra data that the device would return in Cylinder_Low and Cylinder_High registers. 
> >  
> > I have tried to use the HDIO_DRIVE_CMD, but I think this can't help me with the above operation.
> >  
> > I tried using the inw_p and outw_p, inb_p, outb_p, but with these, i usually receive the "lost interrupt" message.
> >  
> > Does anyone here have suggestions on what i should do?
> > 
> > Please reply, and thank you for your time,
> > 
> > -Ana
> 
> 
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