From: Maciej W. R. <ma...@ds...> - 2003-06-11 19:44:43
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Hi Bruce, > > BTW, smartd refuses to disable/enable offline testing if the > > automatic timer isn't supported, while smartctl executes the command > > anyway and at least one drive seems to respond to this command > > regardless: > > Unfortunately this command is not part of ANY ATA specification, so it's > hard to program correctly. It's a legacy of the early undocumented days > of SMART. I have a few old S.M.A.R.T. (and other) documents from mid 90's downloaded from the old WDC site (fission.dt.wdc.com). I think I've seen a note on the bits somewhere. I may make the docs available to you if you are interested. > Currently smartctl issues a warning if the command appears to be > unsuported, but tries issuing the command anyway. smartd gives up > immediately if the command appears unsupported. I'd be happy to recode > smartd (or to accept your recoded version, if you want to do it) so that > smartd behaves the same way as smartctl - namely it just issues a warning > if the command appears unsupported, but tries it anyway. > > I think this might be better -- do you agree? Definitely. I'm not sure if I find time to code the change myself -- probably not. I have a lot of stuff to do elsewhere, sorry. Maciej -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: ma...@ds..., PGP key available + |