From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266725AbUHaJCy (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 05:02:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267526AbUHaJCx (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 05:02:53 -0400 Received: from imap.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:45212 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266725AbUHaI7C (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 04:59:02 -0400 X-Authenticated: #4512188 Message-ID: <41343DD4.8000302@gmx.de> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:59:00 +0200 From: "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040815) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: "John W. Linville" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] libata: add ioctls to support SMART References: <200408301531.i7UFVBg29089@ra.tuxdriver.com> <41336824.1040206@gmx.de> <41343B2A.80909@gmx.de> <41343C66.3080804@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <41343C66.3080804@pobox.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@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-----