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From: Stefan N. <p....@gm...> - 2009-11-26 19:16:26
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Dear smartmontools developers! Until the very recent version of smartmontools (5.39), SMART through USB was not possible on Mac OS X, because the Mac OS X kernel does not support SCSI pass through. That was the reasoning of Christian Franke. Meanwhile I googled for: http://www.google.com/search?q=mac+osx+scsi+passthrough+usb And found a person, who wrote a SCSI pass through driver for Mac OS X: http://tinyco.de/2009/02/04/writing-a-mac-osx-usb-device-driver-with-scsi-pass-through.html In the site's comment section I asked as Stefan Nowak whether this code could be used for passing through SMART: http://tinyco.de/2009/02/04/writing-a-mac-osx-usb-device-driver-with-scsi-pass-through.html#comment-24129787 And the developer answered within the site's comment section as wagerlabs, that it should work: http://tinyco.de/2009/02/04/writing-a-mac-osx-usb-device-driver-with-scsi-pass-through.html#comment-24130057 I don't know low-level coding, otherwise I would offer my help. Please, dear Darwin related smartmontools developers: Could you built SMART through USB support into the Mac version of smartmontools? Regards, Stefan Nowak |