[OpenIndiana-discuss] S.M.A.R.T. tools

[Matt Connolly]

On 06/04/2011, at 11:21 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Does anybody know why the S.M.A.R.T. tools do not work in Solaris?
> To the best of my knowledge they work only with SCSI disks but they
> do not work with either SATA or IDE disks since the necessary ioctls 
> 
> are not implemented in solaris IDE driver.
> 
I got smartmon tools to work for me for drives using the "ahci" driver, using the -d sat,12 option as I found in this thread:

http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=124372

I never got it to work with the "pci-ide" driver though.

-Matt