Re: VIA VT8237 on windows

Federico Gimenez wrote:
> Hello,
> Hopefully this is a known issue (and has a solution).
> I have an old machine with a VIA VT8237 onboard DATA "raid".
>
> Right now I'm not using it as RAID and each disk is seen independently 
> from windows.
>
> On linux I could even see the individual disks when I was using it as 
> RAID and smartmontools was able to do all the smart stuff.
> But on wndows it doesn't work.
>

The output suggests that the VIA ATA driver does not support the ATA 
pass-through I/O-controls required by smartctl.

Try with "-r ioctl,2" option to see which I/O-controls are used.

Thanks,
Christian


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