S.M.A.R.T support?

Bill Hacker wbh at conducive.org
Fri Mar 25 03:38:55 PST 2005


Steve Mynott wrote:

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:05:53 +0800, Bill Hacker <wbh at xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Steve Mynott wrote:


is there any user-land option for S.M.A.R.T hard disk support other
than smartmontools in FreeBSD ports (which requires the ATAng driver)?

*SNIP*

One wonders how difficult it would be to take a different route
and extend atacontrol and camcontrol to improve S.M.A.R.T.
*SNIP*

This seems to be the NetBSD approach with their "atactl".

<http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sbin/atactl/atactl.c.diff?r1=1.14&r2=1.15&f=h>

Maybe this could be used in DragonFly's atacontrol (or similar) if the
data structures/devices aren't too different?
Looks like it has the needed tools.

- Off to a meeting, but will review it tomorrow...
I have Net2 here to test both.
Thanks,

Bill





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