On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Julien Plissonneau Duquene wrote: > I do not know the details, but it seems that there is a limited support > for SCSI hard drives in smartctl, and hdparm used to be able to perform > some functions on regular SCSI disks (not tested recently). > > Given the quality of 90% of firmware, I would rather have a "bypass" > feature that allows user-space apps to send raw commands and read raw > results than some poor SCSI->ATA then ATA->SCSI translation by the USB > device. Not all ATA features could be translated anyway. > > There are several goals actually: > (1) power saving - spin up(down) the disk when (u)mounting, > configure idle spindown timeout > (2) disk condition monitoring - using SMART features > (3) diagnostics/recovery - SMART, "security erase", proprietary commands > > I am unable to do this with the USB to ATA adapters I currently use. Any > progress is welcome.
Sorry, I don't know of any adapters with the necessary extensions. (Or maybe I do and don't realize it because the extensions are proprietary and not publicly available...) Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
