-TODO list for smartmontools:
+$Id: TODO 3904 2014-06-15 14:21:15Z chrfranke $
-$Id: TODO,v 1.60 2006/06/05 17:36:03 chrfranke Exp $
-
-SATA devices under Linux
-------------------------
-These work OK if you use the standard IDe drivers in drivers/ide.
-
-The situation is more complicated if you use libata.
-
-Prior to Linux kernel version 2.6.15-rc1, libata does not support the
-HDIO_DRIVE_TASK, HDIO_DRIVE_CMD, and HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE ioctl()s that
-are needed by smartmontools. Support for HDIO_DRIVE_TASK and
-HDIO_DRIVE_CMD was added into libata by Jeff Garzik starting with
-Linux kernel version 2.6.15-rc1. Starting with this version, you can
-use all the smartmontools commands apart from initiating selective
-self-tests (which also requires HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE). A typical
-command line might look like this:
- smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sda
-The '-d ata' is required, since otherwise smartmontools will assume
-that the device is SCSI, not ATA/SATA. Similar syntax will work with
-smartd.
-
-You may be able to patch earlier versions of libata. Please search the
-Linux Kernel Mailing list to find this patch, or look at the thread:
-http://groups.google.de/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=2yYBY-4HB-55%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=3&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dsmartmontools%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26scoring%3Dd%26selm%3D2yYBY-4HB-55%2540gated-at.bofh.it%26rnum%3D3
-To use this, just use (for example) 'smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sda'.
-
-Since this looks like this patch will become standard, we need to add something
-to smartmontools to automatically recognize the libata, and add the '-d ata'
-automatically.
-
-SATA devices
-------------
-The ATA PASS THROUGH SCSI command (12 and 16 byte cdb) as defined in
-SAT: http://www.t10.org/ftp/t10/drafts/sat/sat-r07.pdf (section 12.2)
-provides a general way to pass ATA SMART commands through to SATA
-devices.
-
-Doug Gilbert will in the future add a '-d sat' type (note, this is not
-a typo, we do not mean '-d sata') which will instruct the generic
-smartmontools code to assume an ATA device but use those ATA PASS
-THROUGH commands.
-
-This should provide additional support for SATA devices under most or
-all operating systems.
-
-USB devices under Linux
------------------------
-Some USB devices can hang smartctl or smartd. This is because these
-devices fail to comply with SCSI specifications for their packet
-command sets. Work on improving the detection and bail-out procedures
-for these flawed devices, so that the user sees an informative error
-message and smartd/smartctl don't hang.
-
-ATA-4 (no kidding!)
--------------------
-smartctl: add another -t TESTTYPE option to accomodate old-style ATA-4
-IBM disks (ATA-4 has no self-test commands). See IBM S25L-2426-02 OEM
-HARD DISK DRIVE SPECIFICATIONS for DBCA-203240/204860/206480 2.5-Inch
-Hard Disk Drive with ATA Interface Revision (1.0)
-http://www.hgst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/85256AB8006A31E587256A7D00642A1D/$file/dbca_sp.pdf
-section 12.30.1.5 for details. These disks offer no self-test option,
-and the -t offline command only tests a small part of the disk (a
-'segment'). We need a -t multioffline that:
- (1) issues auto offline immediate command (tests ONE segment)
- (2) waits until estimated completion time
- (3) tests if off-line data collection status is set to 0x02 (all
- segments completed)
- (4) if not, return to (1)
-
-ATA-6/7
--------
-Support extended error logs
-Support extended self-test logs
-
-smartctl/smartd
----------------
-Add additional -v options (corresponding to comments in
-atacmds.c:ataPrintSmartAttribName().
-
-Add interface to Megaraid ATA RAID controllers (Erik)
-
-smartctl:
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-Add command line option to issue SMART SAVE ATTRIBUTE VALUES command
-Feature Register value ATA_SMART_SAVE 0xd3
-
-Perhaps modify the -q option (quiet mode) so that it only warns of ATA
-errors if they have (say) taken place in the last 168 hours (week).
-
-Parse and print additional Attribute flag meanings (IBM ones, eg
-performance etc). These are now documented in atacmds.h -- we just
-need to modify the format of the Attribute table.
-
-Modify the SMART self-test log table printing so that we ALSO print
-the value of the self-test failure checkpoint byte, if it's one of the
-recognized values. See routine SelfTestFailureCodeName and
-documentation in atacmds.h.
-
-smartd:
--------
-Perhaps change <nomailer> special argument to -m to have also
-<nomailer_fork> which would actually work with -M exec to run the
-executable/script in the background rather than in the foreground.
-But let's wait for someone to request this. At that point we should
-probably use fork/exec rather than system().
-
-Perhaps change smartd to look in /proc/ide and /proc/scsi to see what
-exists? If something doesn't exit then don't try to open it? This
-should probably be the default option if there is no configuration
-file.
-
-Add ability to monitor "worst" value from attributes (sometimes it
-gets larger!) and to monitor the threshold value (sometimes it
-changes!).
-
-Add command line option that scans devices then WRITES
-/etc/smartd.conf, perhaps as /etc/smartd.conf.output, just for devices
-that can be monitored.
-
-FreeBSD
--------
-
-Add support for 3ware 9000 series SATA controllers.
-
-Cygwin and Windows
-------------------
-Add IDE/ATA selective self test.
-
-Access SCSI devices via IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH on 2000/XP
-to support systems with missing ASPI driver.
-
-Packaging
----------
-Under freebsd and solaris, the following are wrong:
-smartd.conf: has linux device paths
-smart*.in : man pages have (mostly) linux device paths
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