Dave wrote: > I recently posted to this list concerning the inability of smartctl to detect > the Toshiba MK1665GSX hard drive. I believe I have found out the reason. > The Toshiba website states this drive supports the ATA-8 and SATA-2.6 > standards. According to the smartctl man page, smartctl only supports up to > the ATA-7 command set. > >
The ATA level of the drive does not matter for SMART. The SMART Feature Set was introduced in ATA-3 (1997), the last enhancements were added in ATA-6 (2002). SMART is still part of ATA-8 and all modern ATA-8 drives support it. There was recently a smartctl output for a MK5065GSX on this list. This series is now in drive database. As far as I can see from the kernel messages in your last posts the drives are connected via a JMicron USB bridge. See http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/USB Please retry with '-d usbjmicron' option. > If this is truly the problem I need to ask if smartctl plans to support the > ATA-8 standards. If you have plans on supporting ATA-8 do you have any idea > when this might occur? > > We already support some features added in ATA-8: '-l scttemp' and '-l scterc' Please send such support requests to the smartmontools-support list, the database list is for database submissions only. Thanks, Christian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Smartmontools-database mailing list Smartmontools-database@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/smartmontools-database
