ada/ahci and smartmontools
Andriy Gapon
avg at icyb.net.ua
Mon Aug 31 16:19:28 UTC 2009
on 28/08/2009 16:38 Alexander Motin said the following:
> Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> on 28/08/2009 15:53 Alexander Motin said the following:
>>> Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>>> Do smartmontools work with ada/ahci disks?
>>>> Any tweaks/hacks to make it possible?
>>> It needs new interface module. Somebody have to combine CAM API
>>> smartmontools interface module used for SCSI devices and ATA SMART commands.
>> So you mean it should practically be the same as existing ATA module, but instead
>> of ATA ioctl it should use cam(3)?
>
> Yes.
>
Thinking out loud - maybe it's possible to support IOCATAREQUEST on ada devices
and internally convert it to appropriate CAM command.
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Andriy Gapon
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