diff --git a/sm5/INSTALL b/sm5/INSTALL index b8d0163ed61ca837e22595b7189adb0d06504701..56db649c6d00e61d9a328e203de173813367e1b1 100644 --- a/sm5/INSTALL +++ b/sm5/INSTALL @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Smartmontools installation instructions ======================================= -$Id: INSTALL,v 1.40 2004/04/02 20:09:13 ballen4705 Exp $ +$Id: INSTALL,v 1.41 2004/04/06 22:01:19 chrfranke Exp $ Please also see the smartmontools home page: http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ @@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ Table of contents: configured. [Andre Hedrick's IDE patches may be found at http://www.funet.fi/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ide-2.2.20/ or are available from your local kernel.org mirror. They are not - updated for 2.2.21 or later, and may contain a few bugs.] - . If the configuration option CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL + updated for 2.2.21 or later, and may contain a few bugs.]. + If the configuration option CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL exists in your 2.2.X kernel source code tree, then your 2.2.X kernel will probably support this ioctl. [Note that this kernel configuration option does NOT need to be enabled. Its presence @@ -94,9 +94,20 @@ Table of contents: E) Windows The Code was tested on Windows 98SE, NT4, 2000 and XP. It should also - work on Windows 95(OSR2) and ME. For SCSI support, an installed - ASPI interface (WNASPI32.DLL) is required. The read log command - (-l, --log) is not supported for ATA/IDE devices on NT4. + work on Windows 95(OSR2) and ME. + + On 9x/ME, only standard (legacy) IDE/ATA devices 0-3 are supported. + The driver SMARTVSD.VXD must be present in WINDOWS\SYSTEM\IOSUBSYS. + + On NT4/2000/XP, also other ATA or SATA devices are supported if + the device driver implements the SMART IOCTL. + + The IDE/ATA read log command (smartctl -l, --log, -a, --all) is + not supported on NT4. On 2000/XP, the undocumented and possibly buggy + IOCTL_IDE_PASS_THROUGH is used for this purpose (see WARNINGS file). + + SCSI devices are supported on all versions of Windows. An installed + ASPI interface (WNASPI32.DLL) is required to access SCSI devices. [2] Installing from CVS