Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:43:43 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp>, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>, Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> Subject: Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails Message-ID: <200706281043.54875.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20070627160321.GA1228@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <20070625174045.GA31486@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20070627151123.GA71331@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20070627160321.GA1228@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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--nextPart2246341.zNCtj7ryse Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 28 June 2007 01:33, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 05:11:23PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > > Well, camcontrol didn't work either. :-( > > This doesn't come as much of a surprise; camcontrol expects to talk > to a native SCSI device (your drive is ATA). atacontrol expects to > talk to a native ATA device, but via adXX, not via umass or any other > USB interface. > > I don't know of any software even on Windows (for comparison) that > lets you get SMART stats off of an ATA drive in a USB enclosure via > USB. Speedfan (http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php) lets you read SMART off=20 HDs. Also I don't think smartctl or FreeBSD are to blame for the inability to=20 send SMART commands to the HD - it is the enclosures fault for not=20 remapping the commands. (Which should be trivial, the commands are=20 identical just the transport is different) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2246341.zNCtj7ryse Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGgwtS5ZPcIHs/zowRAjMYAJ9T95oPA70ZHoPuqHJ1fGgOvG3QJQCePXqE jv7XE2NWI9+EHi2iFruavGg= =HYGw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2246341.zNCtj7ryse--
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