Basic SMART info "out of the box"

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 01:47:33PM +0100, Stefan Bethke wrote:
> 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?

Highly likely.

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