Re: [smartmontools-support] Win32: SATA drive on Silicon Image 3512 Partial Success

[Christian F. <Chr...@t-...>]

Chetan wrote:
> ...
>>     
>>> Would a newer driver for the card help?
>>>       
>> Possibly, but I don't think there is a driver with ATA_PASS_THROUGH 
>> support available.
>>
>>     
>
> So would /dev/hdd:a be the command to try the new IOCTL_ATA_PASS_THROUGH 
> command?
>
>   

If SMART_RCV_DRIVE_DATA returns a "not implemented" error code, smartctl 
retries with IOCTL_ATA_PASS_THROUGH by default. On any other error code, 
smartctl returns "I/O Error" without any retry.

So /dev/hdd:a helps only in the latter case to force the usage of 
IOCTL_ATA_PASS_THROUGH.

But it should be safe to try it. The option "-r ioctl,2" can be used to 
print the ioctls called.

Cheers,

Christian