Re: [smartmontools-support]Problem with Promise ultra 133 Tx2 (possibly)

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

Hi,


>On a Promise ultra 133 TX2 controller i get this answer both in windows
>and linux. Is this a bug or doesnt this controller/driver support this feature ??
>I have ran these tests under both Os on the same computer...
>
>...
>=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
>Error SMART Error Log Read failed: Function not implemented
>Smartctl: SMART Error Log Read Failed
>Error SMART Error Self-Test Log Read failed: Function not implemented
>Smartctl: SMART Self Test Log Read Failed
>  
>


On Windows, this is not a bug. On Nt4/2000/XP, the SMART_IOCTL does not 
support READ_LOG.
smartctl uses IOCTL_IDE_PASS_THROUGH instead, but this ioctl is not 
implemented on NT4 and may not be implemented by the Promise driver on 
2000/XP.
(see also Windows sections in files INSTALL and WARNINGS).

Other functions of smartctl should work on windows (try "smartctl -a ...").

Christian