Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750858AbVLCCnX (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Dec 2005 21:43:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751171AbVLCCnX (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Dec 2005 21:43:23 -0500 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:28557 "EHLO pd2mo2so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750858AbVLCCnW (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Dec 2005 21:43:22 -0500 Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 20:43:15 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: SMART over USB - problem In-reply-to: <5fuei-2bW-3@gated-at.bofh.it> To: linux-kernel Message-id: <43910643.7080706@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <5fuei-2bW-3@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 822 Lines: 20 art wrote: > works on SCSI/IDE why not on IDE over USB/IEEE1394/iSCSI/SAN... ??? > > is the problem in my external usb box or in linux usb/scsi stack ??? The USB interface chip in the enclosure implements a purely USB mass storage interface. The system knows nothing about whether the hard drive in the enclosure is IDE, SCSI or whatever. I don't think there is any standardized way to get SMART data out of a USB storage device. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/