Re: SMART support for SATA disks in FC3 kernel?

[Robin Bowes]

Dave Jones wrote:
>  On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 05:58:46PM +0000, Robin Bowes wrote:
>   > Hi,
>   > 
>   > Does anyone know if and when SMART support for SATA disks [1] will be 
>   > added to the FC3 kernel?
>   > 
>   > [1] http://linux.yyz.us/sata/software-status.html#smart
>  
>  Shortly after its merged upstream. 
Ah, I see. So it's dependent on being added to the kernel core?

Is there any time frame for when this is likely to happen?

I've read various items on the web which have been saying "real soon 
now" since June 2004. Jeff Garzik's latest update says:

"Update 2005/01/07: SMART support will be integrated very soon. SCSI T10 
committee assigned the necessary opcode numbers for ATA passthru (SMART 
support requires this, in libata). Now only a few small tweaks are 
needed before this can be integrated into mainline."

So, I guess it's close. But it would be nice to know how close!

R.
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