TODO list for smartmontools: $Id: TODO,v 1.40 2003/11/28 13:50:27 ballen4705 Exp $ SATA devices ------------ Currently work OK if you use the standard IDE drivers in drivers/ide. If you use the new libata drivers, it won't work correctly because libata doesn't yet support the needed ATA-passthrough ioctl() calls. Jeff Garzik, the libata developer, says that this support will be added in the future. When this happens, add support to smartmontools for a new SATA/libata device type '-d sata'. USB devices ----------- Some USB devices can hang smartctl or smartd. This is because these devices fail to comply with SCSI specifications for their packet command sets. Work on improving the detection and bail-out procedures for these flawed devices, so that the user sees an informative error message and smartd/smartctl don't hang. ATA-6/7 ------- Support selective self-tests (requires an HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE ioctl() interface). Support extended error logs Support extended self-test logs smartctl/smartd --------------- Add additional -v options (corresponding to comments in atacmds.c:ataPrintSmartAttribName(). Add interface to Megaraid ATA RAID controllers (Erik) smartctl: --------- Perhaps modify the -q option (quiet mode) so that it only warns of ATA errors if they have (say) taken place in the last 168 hours (week). Parse and print additional Attribute flag meanings (IBM ones, eg performance etc). smartd: ------- Add a scheduled self-test Directive. This should either steal code from gcrond so that we can use cron syntax, or implement something similar (but simple!). Perhaps change special argument to -m to have also which would actually work with -M exec to run the executable/script in the background rather than in the foreground. But let's wait for someone to request this. At that point we should probably use fork/exec rather than system(). Perhaps change smartd to look in /proc/ide and /proc/scsi to see what exists? If something doesn't exit then don't try to open it? This should probably be the default option if there is no configuration file. Add ability to monitor "worst" value from attributes (sometimes it gets larger!) and to monitor the threshold value (sometimes it changes!). Add command line option that scans devices then WRITES /etc/smartd.conf, perhaps as /etc/smartd.conf.output, just for devices that can be monitored. Solaris ------- Try and integrate ATA support. See http://card-captor.dyndns.org/pub/solaris-smart/ for smartmontools 5.1-18 patched with solaris ATA support (Keiji). Figure out a way to get man pages into sections 1m (smartctl, smartd) and 4 (smartd.conf). This requires a change to Makefile.am (Guido). FreeBSD ------- Get interface for 3ware Escalade controllers working (Eduard). Packaging --------- Modify autogen.sh so that it puts the date it is run into configure.in/Makefile.am: smartmontools_date=`date -u +"%Y/%m/%d"` Then use THIS date to timestamp the manual pages and also as part of the output of smartd -V and smartctl -V.