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ATA with SMART

DISCUSSION Ana Yuseepi 1 participant 1 message Jul 23, 2002

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Hello, first of all, thank you for your replies.. :)

All of the reply I received asked me to take a look at the smartsuite program. I have already taken a look at those, but those doesn't help my problem. It had a support for RETURN_SMART_STATUS command, but only the status_register is returned. The value in cylinder_high and cylinder_low is not returned. So, this is of no use to me.

Any other idea?

Thanks a lot,

-Ana

----- Original Message -----
From: Dima Brodsky <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 07:44:06 -0700
To: Ana Yuseepi <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: ATA with SMART

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Hi,

Take a look at the smartsuite set of utilities:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartsuite/

They are used to control the SMART functionality of a drive. There is probably example code there to do what you want.

ttyl
Dima

Quoted 13 lines · Ana Yuseepi

Hello everyone,

I would like to send some SMART commands in linux. One of the command I'd like to send is return_smart_status and I needed some extra data that the device would return in Cylinder_Low and Cylinder_High registers.

I have tried to use the HDIO_DRIVE_CMD, but I think this can't help me with the above operation.

I tried using the inw_p and outw_p, inb_p, outb_p, but with these, i usually receive the "lost interrupt" message.

Does anyone here have suggestions on what i should do?

Please reply, and thank you for your time,

-Ana

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