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 Post subject: Re: ATA Terminal
PostPosted: January 13th, 2010, 1:37 
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It am reading it to say (for the commands that support it) that bit 6 should be on. LBA28 Bits 24-26 are bits 0-3, using "Read Sectors" as an example.


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 Post subject: Re: ATA Terminal
PostPosted: January 13th, 2010, 15:56 
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While this is on the second page, hopefully most will read this. I have no intention of giving the software out. Some of the regulars maybe. I have learned from this project, that if you don't have the discipline to build this yourself you can only do more harm than good.


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 Post subject: Re: ATA Terminal
PostPosted: January 19th, 2010, 2:21 
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Anyone care to shed some light on WD smart log? I have started looking into it and I am trying to narrow down the meaning of the highlighted hex values.
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I am thinking of attacking this programatically, writing the buffer out to file while DRQ after each request. I would then check for error and recalibrate the drive, re-enable writing to the log, then incrementing the value. If nothing else, I will end up with a lot of random junk that I can then begin to decipher. I am not looking for exact values or anything like that, I want to figure it out for myself. Just looking for any possible problems with my approach.
Shawn


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 Post subject: Re: ATA Terminal
PostPosted: January 19th, 2010, 2:57 
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A good example is 08 00 01 00 04 returns:
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 Post subject: Re: ATA Terminal
PostPosted: January 19th, 2010, 3:52 
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Nevermind.. I was able to search the output of several runs and found the information I was looking for.


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