Re: [smartmontools-support]Promise ATA controller - done!

[Bruce A. <ba...@gr...>]

Christian,

This seems like a nice hack.  Is there a better way?  I think the problem
of accessing SMART data from Promise controllers under Win32 is a
long-standing one, isn't it?

Cheers,
	Bruce

On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Dariusz Rzonca wrote:

> Hello!
> Two days ago I asked about adding support for Promise ATA controller to 
> smartmontools under Windows (under Linux it works fine). Then I spent 
> some time on research and finally managed to do it myself.
> Drivers from Promise for Windows 98 include file smartvsd.vxd (different 
> than orginal one from Microsoft!). Using smartvsd.vxd from Microsoft you 
> are able to monitor SMART only on first IDE controller (on motherboard). 
> When you copy Promise smartvsd.vxd to windows\system\iosubsys 
> (overwriting Microsoft one) you are able to monitor SMART on second IDE 
> controller (Promise), but not on first one (motherboard)! I have added 
> support for Promise controller in this way:
> 1) Copied Promise smartvsd.vxd to windows\system\iosubsys under 
> different name (i.e. smartprm.vxd)
> 2) Modified smartprm.vxd to be available as \\.\SMARTPRM
> 3) Modified os_win32.c from smartmontools to use \\.\SMARTVSD for first 
> four drives (hda-hdd) and \\.\SMARTPRM for next four (hde-hdh).
> 4) Compiled smartmontools and checked if it works - and it works like a 
> charm, so I'm able to monitor SMART on all my HDD under Windows at least!
> Of course it is only a "hack" to make sure if it works. I would be glad 
> to help in adding full support for Promise controllers in next 
> smartmontools version.
> 
> -- 
> Kind regards,
> Dariusz Rzonca
> 
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