On 26/07/13 12:47 PM, Russell Coker wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 10:29:12 +1000 > [email protected] (Trent W. Buck) wrote: >> Russell Coker <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> (not SCSI because I need SMART to work) >> Stupid question: are you saying SMART doesn't work over SAS? Or are >> you talking about parallel SCSI? I thought parallel SCSI was *long* >> gone. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esata#eSATA > > # Some low-level drive features, such as S.M.A.R.T., may not operate > # through some USB [26] or FireWire or USB+FireWire bridges; eSATA does > # not suffer from these issues provided that the controller manufacturer > # (and its drivers) presents eSATA drives as ATA devices, rather than as > # "SCSI" devices > > The above section from the SATA Wikipedia page is what concerns me. > Hi Russel, Trent
I'm using an external ESATA, system have been for a number of years. When I first started out the Linux kernel did not support SMART pass-though for SATA, but it did shortly after I started using the system. smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sd[abcdefghijklm] just works :) Cheers Mike _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
