Re: Serial ATA (SATA) for Linux status report

[Craig Bradney <cbradney@zip.com.au>]

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On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 19:00, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Witold Krecicki wrote:
> > Dnia Wednesday 03 of December 2003 21:44, Jeff Garzik napisał:
> > 
> >>Editor's preface:  This is clearly a first draft, only covering the
> >>basics.  In order for this document to be effective, I request that
> >>users and developers send me (or post) their SATA driver questions and
> >>issues.  I will do my best to address them here.
> >>
> >>
> >>Serial ATA (SATA) for Linux
> >>status report
> >>Dec 3, 2003
> > 
> > What about SMART capabilities? with sii3112 I had it, but with libata I cannot 
> > get any informations :/
> 
> 
> Currently do not support random userland programs throwing random ATA 
> commands at us...  so no SMART support at present :)  It's coming, though.


On the note of SATA interfaced drives, is there a way to power them
down? 

I have recently attached my spare PATA drive with a converter and use it
just for backups (mount, rsync, umount). I have these configured through
SCSI (/dev/sda) with the 3112 2.6.1 support. hdparm comlains the drive
is SCSI... is there a similar command to power it down?

thanks
Craig

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