I'm quite new to Linux and I need to create a monitoring program for our SATA hdd's. I have to be able to send smart status commands to the drive. Is there a way to do this? I tried the HDIO_DRIVE_CMD in IOCTL but it wont work. Is there a library function header file that I can include in my program so that I can access the libata functions and its variables?
Look into smartmontools at http://smartmontools.sf.net/ It's both a monitoring daemon (smartd) and a command line utility program (smartctl). It uses a combination of ioctls including HDIO_DRIVE_CMD, HDIO_DRIVE_TASK, and HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE if I remember correctly.
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