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

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Mynott wrote:

> 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)?
*SNIP*

> > One wonders how difficult it would be to take a different route
> > and extend atacontrol and camcontrol to improve S.M.A.R.T.

*SNIP*

> 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?

Looks like it has the needed tools.

- Off to a meeting, but will review it tomorrow...
I have Net2 here to test both.

Thanks,

Bill