S.M.A.R.T support?

Bill Hacker wbh at conducive.org
Sat Mar 26 04:22:47 PST 2005


Thomas Edward Spanjaard wrote:

"Bill Hacker" <wbh at xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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In either/both cases, they provide finer-grained control
of ATA device features, but do NOT provide for RAID
control as atacontrol does.


As RAID control under NetBSD is device-specific, they won't put it in 
such a generic utility. Unless you have a common RAID interface to all 
adapters, I guess we're better off with separate utilities.
FreeBSD's atacontrol is actually a 'different sort of animal' - not just 
RAID.
- but it seems well-suited to extending for SMART querying.

Try 'atacontrol list', then 'atacontrol cap x y ' where 'x' is controller
channel 0 onward and 'y' is device 0 onward.
Similar sort of info (shows SMART presence/absence, enabled/disabled,
but not (yet) the actual SMART report.
So it is 'talking' to the drive controller already anyway.

Bill






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