Re: [smartmontools-support] Hack for Prolific PL3507 USB bridge

[Edward S. <ejs...@gm...>]

On Fri, 28 Dec 2012, Christian Franke wrote:

> Edward Sheldrake wrote:
> > Inspired by seeing that the PL2507 works with "usbjmicron,0" , I have
> > discovered that my PL3507 will work with a slightly altered version of the
> > usbjmicron command. It needs the two bytes 06 7b added on to the end of
> > the command, like so:
> > 
> > Index: scsiata.cpp
> > ===================================================================
> > --- scsiata.cpp	(revision 3738)
> > +++ scsiata.cpp	(working copy)
> > [...]
> 
> Thanks for the info. Attached is a quick hack based on your patch.
> It adds a '-d usbjmicron,p' option to select the 14 byte PL3507 command.
> 
> Please test.
> 
> Thanks,
> Christian
> 
> 
The patch works as intended, "-d usbjmicron,p,0" can read the SMART 
attributes and logs. It's better than nothing.

Thanks