SATA support for SMART [was Re: Using FC3: four outstanding problems and a search suggestion]

[Robin Laing]

Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 12:21:26PM -0300, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:
> 
>>>If smartd doesn't work with SATA drives, what should we be using?
>>>
>>
>>smartd ;)
>>
>>SATA disks *do* support SMART , but the current implementation of libata 
>>(if I'm not getting confused) cant send SMART commands to SATA disks 
>>yet.  When that is fixed,  smartd will be able to work with SATA disks.
> 
>  
> Jeff Garzik libata development tree does support SMART on SATA:
> 
> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/5c4c875c3d6278cb/2779852506ea5f12
> 
>    John W. Linville:
>      o libata: update ATA pass thru opcodes
>      o libata: minor style changes in ata_scsi_pass_thru
>      o libata: filter SET_FEATURES - XFER MODE from ATA pass thru
>      o libata: sync SMART ioctls with ATA pass thru spec (T10/04-262r7)
>      o libata: fix command queue leak when xlat_func fails
>      o libata: SMART support via ATA pass-thru 
> 
> I don't think that it has been merged upstream yet, but if you are impatient and
> inclined to roll your own kernel you could get it out of Jeff's git repository,
> in the passthru branch:
> 
> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git;a=summary
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Bill Rugolsky
> 

In simple terms, it is in the works and is coming.  :)

-- 
Robin Laing