Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 01:37:06 +0200 From: Grigori Goronzy <greg@chown.ath.cx> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "atacontrol enclosure" does not work Message-ID: <20021018013706.501ef855.greg@chown.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20021017145817.T88254-100000@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20021017231845.01d14d98.greg@chown.ath.cx> <20021017145817.T88254-100000@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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Doug White wrote: > On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Grigori Goronzy wrote: > > > I tried to use the "enclosure" command of atacontrol, but it doesn't > > work. I'd like to use it, especially to check the temperature of the > > harddisk. It's an IBM DeskStar 120GXP drive with 80GB. For Linux > > there is a tool called "hddtemp" and with this tool it works as > > expected with this drive. > > The enclosure command is designed for talking to Promise enclosures > only. If you want to communicate with your disks, you'll have to write > something that sends raw ATA commands to retrieve that information. > Needless to say the command is vendor-specific. > ok, thanks for the fast answer, I'll look for a specific tool. But shouldn't the manpage of atacontrol updated? It does not say anything about promise-only. Grigori To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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