S.M.A.R.T daemon for SATA hard drives

Currently an interface to the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) of SATA hard drives is not supported under Linux. If anyone is willing and able to create a daemon that will allow the use and access to SMART for SATA drives, we will fund the project. Initially we would only require a limited number of features within the SMART reporting capabilities, namely a notification of read/write errors beyond a ceratin threshold (settable), temperature info and disk failure.