Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu - SCSI disk "Device Model", "Serial Number", and "Firmware Version"?

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 06/07/2011 09:04 AM, Dave Seddon wrote:
> Here's an example of the nasty/QEMU output of smartmontools:
> -------------------------------------------------------
> # smartctl -d sat --all /dev/sg0
> smartctl version 5.38 [i686-spcdn-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>
> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> Device Model:     [No Information Found]
> Serial Number:    [No Information Found]
> Firmware Version: �"
> Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
> ATA Version is:   1
> ATA Standard is:  Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
> Local Time is:    Tue Jun  7 16:57:08 2011 UTC
> SMART is only available in ATA Version 3 Revision 3 or greater.
> We will try to proceed in spite of this.
> SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 82-83 don't show if 
> SMART supported.
>                    Checking for SMART support by trying SMART ENABLE command.
>                    SMART ENABLE appeared to work!  Continuing.
> SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 85-87 don't show if 
> SMART is enabled.
> A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T 
> permissive' options
> -------------------------------------------------------

Here we should perhaps try to improve the ATA emulation.

> Looking in the source, I can see that the "QEMU HARDDISK" for example is
> statically defined.  Would this be difficult to make an option for the
> '-drive '?
> -------------------------------------------------------
> address@hidden hw]# grep -R 'QEMU' scsi-disk.c
>      QEMUIOVector qiov;
>      QEMUBH *bh;
>          memcpy(&outbuf[16], "QEMU CD-ROM     ", 16);
>          memcpy(&outbuf[16], "QEMU HARDDISK   ", 16);
>      memcpy(&outbuf[8], "QEMU    ", 8);
>          s->version = qemu_strdup(QEMU_VERSION);
> -------------------------------------------------------

It should not be hard.  It probably would be better to do it for if=ide 
too, though.