From: Bruce A. <ba...@gr...> - 2007-10-02 16:20:51
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Keiji-san, I should have written '-d sat' below. The '-a' is a mistake! Cheers, Bruce On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > Bruce Allen wrote: >> On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Sawada Keiji wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>>> Please see message below. As I recall, smartmontools DOES run on >>>> Solaris/x86, but only supports SCSI not (S)ATA on that platform. Under >>>> SPARC both SCSI and (S)ATA are supported. Is that right? >>> >>> Right, except for SATA. >>> I don't know much about SATA devices, because SATA devices >>> operate under sd (SCSI disk) framework. >> >> Doug, will the SAT pass through work in this case (Keiji, this is '-a >> sat')? > > Possibly. When '-a sat' is used (or implicit) > then the OS SCSI pass through will be used and it seems > that Solaris/x86 has one. > > This assumes there is a SAT layer in place between > smartmontools and the (S)ATA device. As an example > LSI SAS HBAs have such a layer in their firmware. > > There could still be problems. For example 16 byte SCSI > command may not be supported (then try '-d sat,12') > or the pass through is filtering out commands that it doesn't > understand or like (e.g. Windows rejects the EXTENDED COPY > command because it is too powerful (security concern)!). > > Doug Gilbert > >>>> At some point in the past you had thought it might be possible to >>>> release the (S)ATA .c interface code rather than just the .S via the >>>> OpenSolaris licence. Anything new there? I suppose that this might >>>> make it easier to port SPARC code to x86, if that's the issue. >>> >>> Sorry for waiting long long time... Please wait for one more week! >>> Interface code is small and disarmingly simple. >> >> One week -- no problem!! >> >> Small and simple -- definitely no problem!! >> >> Cheers, >> Bruce >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Smartmontools-support mailing list > Sma...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/smartmontools-support > |