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Doug Bissett:

--- Quote ---Confirms that the problem I am seeing is with the os2ahci.add v2.03 driver.
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Not necessarily. SMARTAHCI.EXE was tweaked by Arca Noae to work with AHCI, It was sourced from the IDE version.


--- Quote ---And now I am wondering if smartctl v6.6 2017-04-23 r4424 - http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/util/disk/smartmontools-6.6-r4424.zip - is less misleading/wrong. Yes, this build works with ahci, uses ahci0 instead of hd0 to specify an ahci controlled disk.
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I don't know where that version actually came from (and I never wasted my time looking at it). I doubt if it was used by Arca Noae for their version (the only reason I tried the AN version, was because I do testing for Arca Noae, and they asked). I expect that v6.6 works, but it has no "official" standing in OS/2. The Arca Noae version does have Arca Noae behind it (and that is about as close to being "official" as you can get with OS/2 now). It should be pretty easy to extract data from a disk. Formatting it would be the hard part, and that hasn't changed. The access to the disk is the only difference from the IDE version, which probably explains the version used (probably just a port address change).

BTW, os2ahci.add v2.07 also works (not, yet released).

Pete:
Hi Doug

Well, smartahci works with the os2ahci v1.32 driver but locks the system solid when os2ahci v2.03 is installed - it is the same smartahci that you report as working with os2ahci v2.06. the difference between smartahci working and locking up the system seems to be reliant on the os2ahci version in use.

I suggest you try the later smartctl package as it is a much later version than that used by AN for smartahci just to see if the accuracy of data is improved.


Regards

Pete

Andi B.:
It's a know issue that some os2ahci versions crash the system rock solid when trying to read smart information. I think 2.04 was the version which fixed this issue.

Neil Waldhauer:
For the current Arca Noae AHCI driver, smartctl from Hobbes (listed as smartmontools) works. But how do I get a nice display like smartmon and DaniS506 used to give me?

The data is there if I use smartctl -a ahci1

OK, smartctl -A ahci1 seems to give a black and white version of the smartmon display.

Dave Yeo:
If you mean the coloured (ANSI) output, I'd guess it is a compile time option or needs to be forced on on OS/2. It's a shame that no one seems to follow the license and make the source available.

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