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

[Steve Mynott <steve.mynott@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:05:53 +0800, Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

This seems to be the NetBSD approach with their "atactl".

<http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sbin/atactl/atactl.c.diff?r1=1.14&r2=1.15&f=h>

Maybe this could be used in DragonFly's atacontrol (or similar) if the
data structures/devices aren't too different?