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kasbert / OS-X-SAT-SMART-Driver

Max OS X kernel driver for providing access to external drive SMART data
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What the future for this project? #55

Open macuserguru opened 5 years ago

macuserguru commented 5 years ago

Will there also be further development in the future? Adaptation to new packages and their chip sets?

alvarnell commented 5 years ago

It has been over four years since the last release, so I doubt there will ever be any further. I suspect you're on your own to add any needed chip sets.

macuserguru commented 5 years ago

Is there a similar project somewhere?

alvarnell commented 5 years ago

None that I am aware of. All the drive utility developers seem to have adopted this and turned it into their own solution.

bitnautist commented 5 years ago

This no longer works under Catalina macOS 10.16 beta 5...if there's no further development then Mojave is the last macOS that will run this driver. :(

macuserguru commented 5 years ago

Bad news! I hope for SMART drivers for Catalina too! I want to buy a new Mac in the fall, until then it would be good if the problem was solved.

alvarnell commented 5 years ago

It's evident that the developer here has abandoned the project, so I suspect the only hope is that another product developer that currently uses SAT-SMART drivers (e.g. SMART Utilities, DriveDx) will come up with a solution.

apple4ever commented 5 years ago

All - I just tested this under Catalina Beta 5, and it worked for me.

As the developer of SMART Utility, I will do my best to keep the driver working. I also do hope to update it and fix a few bugs.

alvarnell commented 5 years ago

Great! So @bitnautist, what specifically are you seeing that isn’t working for you?

bitnautist commented 5 years ago

Catalina beta 5 says the driver is not compatible...

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alvarnell commented 5 years ago

DriveDx is going to have to solve that part. It's their installer.

apple4ever commented 5 years ago

I've seen that with my installer too, but I have yet to be able to reproduce it.

What Mac are you installing it on?

And where?

bitnautist commented 5 years ago

I’m installing on a Mac Pro 6,1 with 6 cores and 64GB of RAM in the default installer location.

BinaryFruit commented 5 years ago

Hi All, macOS Catalina 10.15 ready drivers (v0.8 and v0.10) are available on our website and included in DriveDx v1.8.3. Enjoy!