Re: S.M.A.R.T support?

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Mynott wrote:

> is there any user-land option for S.M.A.R.T hard disk support other
> than smartmontools in FreeBSD ports (which requires the ATAng driver)?

ACK. A conditional in the Makefile tests for *BSD less than Rev 5.X, 
exits with
the statement that ATAng is required when a build is attempted on
anything less.

ATAng was still 'officially' somewhat problematic as at 5.2 release.

One wonders how difficult it would be to take a different route
and extend atacontrol and camcontrol to improve S.M.A.R.T.
monitoring, as they already have the ability to query other
information in drive registers. Both also sit above a whole
legion of hardware-specific drivers, which, hopefully, need no
changes.

Bill