S.M.A.R.T support?

Bill Hacker wbh at conducive.org
Fri Mar 25 18:19:04 PST 2005


Thomas Edward Spanjaard wrote:

"Steve Mynott" <steve.mynott at xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:81c92190503250328679f2cbc at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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?


I see that as a viable option. I'm pretty pleased with the way NetBSD 
handles it.

Cheers,
       -- Thomas E. Spanjaard
NetBSD and OpenBSD atactl appear to use the same code, credit the
same author(s) and history, though I haven't diff'ed
the sources yet.
In either/both cases, they provide finer-grained control
of ATA device features, but do NOT provide for RAID
control as atacontrol does.
In all cases, these are management tools, not drivers per se,
so I think this is precisely where the combined functionality
belongs.
Will look at it later today.  Need some sleep now.
Preening, mounting and I/O is tiring w/o a computer.  ;-)
Bill





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