Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:36:28 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Basic SMART info "out of the box" Message-ID: <20091216143628.GA98230@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <3D5B7272-3FAD-473A-A48A-5775A1BA28CC@lassitu.de> References: <1260638581.00193503.1260625202@10.7.7.3> <4B23DC8B.8020807@FreeBSD.org> <3979a4b0912151044i5c3031ebo41ed0cb482461ea9@mail.gmail.com> <20091215202446.GA75896@icarus.home.lan> <3D5B7272-3FAD-473A-A48A-5775A1BA28CC@lassitu.de>
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On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 01:47:33PM +0100, Stefan Bethke wrote: > Am 15.12.2009 um 21:24 schrieb Jeremy Chadwick: > > >[1]: It's hardly done and needs a *lot* of work, but I'll eventually > >get it into a state where it could be committed and people could > >hack on > >it/improve it. It's no where near as defined as smartmontools > >(re: disk > >vendor/model one-offs for attribute parsing and so on), but I figured > >FreeBSD users might want something out-of-the-box which might give > >them > >stats which are most commonly focused on (sector reallocation, drive > >temperature, high spin-up times, CRC errors, etc.). I guess you could > >say I'm a bit proud of myself given that I was able to figure out > >how to > >accomplish it by looking at some smartmontools source (messy, let me > >tell you...) and ata(4) bits (since the ioctls aren't documented). > > > >[2]: Yes, I'm still working on writing that doc that explains how to > >read SMART data. Going to have to end up doing it for work as well... > >oh the joys. :-) > > Yes please, I'd like to see basic SMART diagnostics out of the box > in the base system! I've looked at doing something similar on and > off for a long time, but never really got beyond the basic ioctl > proof of concept stage. > > Since it appears ata and atacontrol might be replaced by CAM, and > SCSI devices can also support SMART, would it be possible to add > this to camcontrol or a similar utility? Highly likely. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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