On Thu, 07.02.2008 at 00:48:53 +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > Consider a PATA or SATA disk attached over USB. AFAIK, the USB mass > > storage protocol is basically SCSI over USB. Is there a way to access > > the disk's SMART data over SCSI / USB? Perhaps as mode pages? Has > > anyone tried this? > > > > The reason I'm asking is this: > > > > http://www.sharkoon.com/html/produkte/externe_gehaeuse/sata_quickport/index.html > > > > This could be extremely useful to quickly extract SMART error logs from > > failing disks after you've replaced them, not to mention wipe them > > before RMAing them. Unfortunately, it doesn't have an eSATA connector. > > I tested many PATA/SATA to USB convertors and disc enclosures - none of them > allowed access to SMART (under FreeBSD, nor Windows). Maybe it is I/O chip > implementation problem.
Did you try with atausb(4)? Perhaps it's a limitation of our SCSI layer? Cheers, Ulrich Spoerlein -- It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak, and remove all doubt. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
