Basic SMART info "out of the box"

[Stefan Bethke]

Am 15.12.2009 um 21:24 schrieb Jeremy Chadwick:

> [1]: It's hardly done and needs a *lot* of work, but I'll eventually
> get it into a state where it could be committed and people could  
> hack on
> it/improve it.  It's no where near as defined as smartmontools (re:  
> disk
> vendor/model one-offs for attribute parsing and so on), but I figured
> FreeBSD users might want something out-of-the-box which might give  
> them
> stats which are most commonly focused on (sector reallocation, drive
> temperature, high spin-up times, CRC errors, etc.).  I guess you could
> say I'm a bit proud of myself given that I was able to figure out  
> how to
> accomplish it by looking at some smartmontools source (messy, let me
> tell you...) and ata(4) bits (since the ioctls aren't documented).
>
> [2]: Yes, I'm still working on writing that doc that explains how to
> read SMART data.  Going to have to end up doing it for work as well...
> oh the joys.  :-)

Yes please, I'd like to see basic SMART diagnostics out of the box in  
the base system!  I've looked at doing something similar on and off  
for a long time, but never really got beyond the basic ioctl proof of  
concept stage.

Since it appears ata and atacontrol might be replaced by CAM, and SCSI  
devices can also support SMART, would it be possible to add this to  
camcontrol or a similar utility?


Thanks,
Stefan

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