FeatureRequest: Add STDIN support for other "-d" than ATA disks #341
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Will possibly be addressed after we moved the project from SourceForge svn to GitHub and later rework of ATA debug output. |
Nice! With a move from SF to GitHub it will be more easy to contribute. |
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Hi,
The current implementation of "-" input (STDIN) only supports ATA disks.
So we can use
smartctl -a -r ataioctl,2 -d sat /dev/sda | smartctl -a -.And this is useful for testing.
However, this could be used for different purposes: for example, to get the data from the disk using different tools.
In this case something like
3rd-party-scan-tool ... | re-format-tool | smartctl -a -makes sense.But the problem really is that only ATA disks have this support. You can use
-r ataioctl,2but not-r scsiioctl,2or-r ioctl,2.The request is to enhance support for the PIPE input to SCSI disks.
And please note that the actual manual page states:
This is does not work for SCSI devices **yet**.I hope you want to add this support.
Thank you.
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