Looking for testers: atacontrol SMART support

Jeremy Chadwick freebsd at jdc.parodius.com
Tue Jan 26 06:29:24 UTC 2010


On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 08:38:26AM +0300, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
> On 26.01.2010 7:40, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> >- All of the code was written by hand; that is to say, there is no code
> >copied/stolen from smartmontools, as it's released under the GPL.
> 
> Hi, Jeremy.
> 
> Some time ago i've began the same work, but did not finish it because ENOTIME..
> So, did you look to NetBSD's implementation? As i remember NetBSD has SMART
> reporting and testing support in atactl.

Nope, I had no idea they had existing code already in their userland
utility; I haven't looked at/used NetBSD since 1993.  :-)

I'll take a peek and see what I see.  Thanks for the tip!

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