Re: [patch] libata: add ioctls to support SMART

[Prakash K. Cheemplavam]

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Jeff Garzik wrote:
| Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote:
|> Just wanted to say that smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sda works, as John
|> Linville and now Bruce aLlen suggested to try.
|
| As I noted in another email, be careful...  that patch bypasses the SCSI
| command synchronization, so you could potentially send a SMART command
| to the hardware while another command is still in progress.

Yup, I read your warning, so I won't run a background monitor. In fact
jusr gave it a quick try and saw all is fine and then I am not going to
touch it for now. ;-)

Prakash
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