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Dear smartmontools developers!

Until the very recent version of smartmontools (5.39), SMART through USB was not possible on Mac OS X, because the Mac OS X kernel does not support SCSI pass through (reasoning of Christian Franke).

Meanwhile I googled for: ​http://www.google.com/search?q=mac+osx+scsi+passthrough+usb

And found a person, who wrote a SCSI pass through driver for Mac OS X: ​http://tinyco.de/2009/02/04/writing-a-mac-osx-usb-device-driver-with-scsi-pass-through.html

In the site's comment section I asked as Stefan Nowak whether this code could be used for passing through SMART: ​http://tinyco.de/2009/02/04/writing-a-mac-osx-usb-device-driver-with-scsi-pass-through.html#comment-24129787

And the developer answered within the site's comment section as wagerlabs, that it should work: ​http://tinyco.de/2009/02/04/writing-a-mac-osx-usb-device-driver-with-scsi-pass-through.html#comment-24130057

I don't know low-level coding, otherwise I would offer my help. Please, dear Darwin related smartmontools developers: Could you built SMART through USB support into the Mac version of smartmontools?

Regards, Stefan Nowak

# /usr/sbin/smartctl -V smartctl 5.39 2009-12-04 r2993 [i686-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-9 by Bruce Allen, ​http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

smartctl comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2. See ​http://www.gnu.org for further details.

smartmontools release 5.39 dated 2009-11-30 at 20:24:12 UTC smartmontools SVN rev 2993 dated 2009-12-04 at 17:29:50 smartmontools build host: i686-redhat-linux-gnu smartmontools build configured: 2009-12-08 10:00:19 UTC smartctl compile dated Dec 8 2009 at 13:00:33 smartmontools configure arguments: '--host=i686-redhat-linux-gnu' '--build=i686-redhat-linux-gnu' '--target=i386-redhat-linux' '--program-prefix=' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/usr/com' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -g -march=i386 -mcpu=i686' 'CXXFLAGS=-O2 -g -march=i386 -mcpu=i686' 'build_alias=i686-redhat-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i686-redhat-linux-gnu' 'target_alias=i386-redhat-linux'

# /usr/sbin/megarc.bin -AllAdpInfo

MEGARC MegaRAID Configuration Utility(LINUX)-1.11(12-07-2004) By LSI Logic Corp.,USA

[Note: For SATA-2, 4 and 6 channel controllers, please specify Ch=0 Id=0..15 for specifying physical drive(Ch=channel, Id=Target)]

Type ? as command line arg for help

AdapterNo FirmwareType CardType 00 40LD/8SPAN MegaRAID SCSI 320-1

#/usr/sbin/megarc.bin -dispCfg -a0 ...

Logical Drive : 0( Adapter: 0 ): Status: OPTIMAL

--------------------------------------------------- SpanDepth :01 RaidLevel: 5 RdAhead : No Cache: DirectIo StripSz :064KB Stripes : 4 WrPolicy: WriteBack

Logical Drive 0 : SpanLevel_0 Disks Chnl Target StartBlock Blocks Physical Target Status ---- ------ ---------- ------ ---------------------- 0 00 0x00000000 0x088bb000 ONLINE 0 01 0x00000000 0x088bb000 ONLINE 0 02 0x00000000 0x088bb000 ONLINE 0 03 0x00000000 0x088bb000 ONLINE

/usr/sbin/megarc.bin -LogPhysInfo -a0 ...

Adapter No 0 : Total Logical Drive(s)- 1

Logical drive 0: RaidLevel 5

Physical Drive Information Channel 0

70006MB drive scsi ID 0

CoerSZ: 143372288(Sectors) 70006(MB) RawSZ: 143374743(Sectors)

70006MB drive scsi ID 1

CoerSZ: 143372288(Sectors) 70006(MB) RawSZ: 143374743(Sectors)

70006MB drive scsi ID 2

CoerSZ: 143372288(Sectors) 70006(MB) RawSZ: 143374743(Sectors)

70006MB drive scsi ID 3

CoerSZ: 143372288(Sectors) 70006(MB) RawSZ: 143374743(Sectors)

/usr/sbin/megarc.bin -phys -a0 -chAll -idAll ...

Adapter 0, Channel 0, Target ID 0 ---------------------------------------- Type: DISK Vendor : SEAGATE Product: ST373207LC Revision : 0003 Synchronous : Yes Wide-32 : No Wide-16: Yes LinkCmdSupport: Yes TagQ support: Yes RelAddr: No Removable : No SoftReset : No AENC : No

Adapter 0, Channel 0, Target ID 1 ---------------------------------------- Type: DISK Vendor : SEAGATE Product: ST373207LC Revision : 0003 Synchronous : Yes Wide-32 : No Wide-16: Yes LinkCmdSupport: Yes TagQ support: Yes RelAddr: No Removable : No SoftReset : No AENC : No

Adapter 0, Channel 0, Target ID 2 ---------------------------------------- Type: DISK Vendor : SEAGATE Product: ST373207LC Revision : 0003 Synchronous : Yes Wide-32 : No Wide-16: Yes LinkCmdSupport: Yes TagQ support: Yes RelAddr: No Removable : No SoftReset : No AENC : No

Adapter 0, Channel 0, Target ID 3 ---------------------------------------- Type: DISK Vendor : SEAGATE Product: ST373207LC Revision : 0003 Synchronous : Yes Wide-32 : No Wide-16: Yes LinkCmdSupport: Yes TagQ support: Yes RelAddr: No Removable : No SoftReset : No AENC : No

Adapter 0, Channel 0, Target ID 6 ---------------------------------------- Type: PROC Vendor : SUPER Product: GEM318 Revision : 0 Synchronous : No Wide-32 : No Wide-16: No LinkCmdSupport: No TagQ support: No RelAddr: No Removable : No SoftReset : No AENC : No

output smartctl:

# /usr/sbin/smartctl -a -d megaraid,0 /dev/sda smartctl 5.39 2009-12-04 r2993 [i686-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-9 by Bruce Allen, ​http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

Smartctl open device: /dev/sda [megaraid_disk_00] failed: INQUIRY failed

show can i get smart info?

The ATA SMART RETURNS STATUS command provides the result in the ATA output registers. Buggy ATA/SATA drivers and SAT Layers often do not properly return the registers values.

If a SAT Layer does not provide an ATA Return Descriptor with the output registers, smartctl 5.39 prints the following message and aborts:

Error SMART Status command failed
Please get assistance from http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.

Smartctl should not abort in this case and print a more specific warning message. The output for 'smartctl -H ...' should be as follows:

SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: UNKNOWN