From: Bruce A. <ba...@gr...> - 2002-11-28 09:53:18
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Dear Eduard, > I got most of the way there, before realizing that the ATA disk driver > didn't support generic ATAPI ioctls, and didn't have direct support > for the SMART ATA commands either. Soeren indicated he has a patch > pending to provide support for the SMART commands, so I am eagerly > awaiting his patch to try to finish the work I started. I just wanted to let you know that a new developer (Peter Cassidy) has joined the smartmontools project. He is partway finished with a Darwin/MacOS port of smartmontools, and we are starting a smartmontools mailing list discission of how to organize the CVS directory and file structure to support additional platforms. I thought that if you were still planning to do a FreeBSD port of smartmontools, you might want to participate in (or follow) this discussion, to ensure that a future FreeBSD port will glide cleanly into the structure. Cheers, Bruce |
From: Soeren S. <so...@sp...> - 2002-11-28 09:59:52
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It seems Bruce Allen wrote: > Dear Eduard, >=20 > > I got most of the way there, before realizing that the ATA disk drive= r > > didn't support generic ATAPI ioctls, and didn't have direct support > > for the SMART ATA commands either. Soeren indicated he has a patch > > pending to provide support for the SMART commands, so I am eagerly > > awaiting his patch to try to finish the work I started. >=20 > I just wanted to let you know that a new developer (Peter Cassidy) has > joined the smartmontools project. He is partway finished with a > Darwin/MacOS port of smartmontools, and we are starting a smartmontools > mailing list discission of how to organize the CVS directory and file > structure to support additional platforms. >=20 > I thought that if you were still planning to do a FreeBSD port of > smartmontools, you might want to participate in (or follow) this > discussion, to ensure that a future FreeBSD port will glide cleanly int= o > the structure. Sure! Its next on my list, I have to do the last poslish of the ATA driver that goes into FreeBSD-5.0 soon (as that is very urgent), then I'll get to it... -S=F8ren |