On 26/07/13 12:47 PM, 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.
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