ada/ahci and smartmontools

[Sam Fourman Jr.]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Alexander Motin <mav at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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



sorry then I will try again, I just installed the port and tried a
simple command

Ziggy# smartctl -i /dev/ad4s1
smartctl version 5.38 [i386-portbld-freebsd9.0] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device)

A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or
more '-T permissive' options.

 Ziggy# dmesg | grep ad4
ad4: 238475MB <Seagate ST3250820AS 3.AAD> at ata2-master SATA300
GEOM: ad4s1: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s).
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s1a


Sam