[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#563023: libatasmart-bin: please support usbcypress passthru

[Rogério Brito]

Package: libatasmart-bin
Version: 0.17-1
Severity: wishlist

Hi.

I am in the process of reorganizing and selecting new tools (the
lighter, the merrier) for my systems and it seems that skdump/sktest are
quite nice candidates.

Unfortunately, it seems that they support jmicron USB passthru, but not
cypress. (Yes, I do have one Firewire+USB enclosure with Cypress
circuitry).

OTOH, smartmonctl *does* support it and, from a quick look at it, it
seems that it would be reasonably easy to port the necessary parts to
libatasmart.

This is, therefore, a request for such feature.


Thanks for packaging it, Rogério Brito.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-rc1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.utf-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libatasmart-bin depends on:
ii  libatasmart4                  0.17-1     ATA S.M.A.R.T. reading and parsing
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-2   GNU C Library: Shared libraries

libatasmart-bin recommends no packages.

libatasmart-bin suggests no packages.

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