Russell Coker wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 10:29:12 +1000 trentbuck@gmail.com (Trent W. Buck) wrote:
Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> 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.
That... sounds misleading. Certainly USB mass storage enclosures are (IME) not SMARTable, but I ascribe that to the translation to USB, not because there's SCSI in there somewhere. Having said that, I'm not 100% sure I've ever SMARTed a SAS drive.