ada/ahci and smartmontools

[Alexander Motin]

Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Andriy Gapon <avg at icyb.net.ua> 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)?
> 
> This is a little OT, but can someone confirm if smartmontools works
> with SATA2 Drives?

SATA2 is just another physical transport for ATA commands. SATA1/2
completely compatible to PATA on command level.

-- 
Alexander Motin