Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 16:55:36 +0100 (CET) From: Soeren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk> To: Eduard Martinescu <martines@frontiernet.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI vs ATA disk Message-ID: <200211181555.gAIFtaTt019103@spider.deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <1037626255.2801.20.camel@firestorm.crafts4life.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
It seems Eduard Martinescu wrote: > > I am trying to port the 'smartmontools' package from sourceforge.net to > FreeBSD. However, I am running into some issues. I need to be able to > send SMART commands (and read responses) to ATA disk drives. At first > glance, it looked like the generic ATAPI layer would work great, but I > have found that the ATA disk drives do NOT support generic ATAPI > commands (through that ATAPICMD ioctl). > > So now I am at a loss as to how best to proceed. Should I just patch > the code in ata-all.c that looks for an ATAPI_MASTER or SLAVE device? > (and allow a ATA_MASTER and SLAVE) to receive ATAPI commands? Should I > try to work up a new IOCTL to support ATAPI commands to ATA disks? > Should I add IOCTL support to the AD device driver? I have a patch coming up that supports the SMART commands, interpreting the data will be left to userland (where smartmontools might be able to do the job)... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200211181555.gAIFtaTt019103>