From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Cousins Subject: Re: Care and feeding of RAID? Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:35:06 -0400 Message-ID: <44FDC35A.9060000@maine.edu> References: <44FD722C.7050608@waldoware.com> <44FD91D1.7090501@maine.edu> <20060905175724.GK11132@datavibe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20060905175724.GK11132@datavibe.net> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Rev. Jeffrey Paul" Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Rev. Jeffrey Paul wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 11:03:45AM -0400, Steve Cousins wrote: > >>These are SATA drives and except for the one machine that has a 3Ware >>8506 card in it I haven't been able to get SMART programs to do anything >>with these drives. How do others deal with this? >> > > > I use the tw_cli program to check up on my 3ware stuff. Hi Jeffrey, Thanks. I use tw_cli too and I have scripted a check to see if it degrades but this doesn't help with checking for disk problems before they happen which SMART should help with. As it happens, smartctl works with 3Ware SATA drives. It is my other SATA drives that I'm unable to monitor. Steve > It took me quite a bit of time to figure that one out. I don't > have any automated monitoring set up, but it'd be simple enough to > script. I check on the array every so often and run a verify every few > months to see if it kicks a disk out (it hasn't yet). > > 0 root@datavibe:~# tw_cli > //datavibe> info > > Ctl Model Ports Drives Units NotOpt RRate VRate BBU > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > c0 8006-2LP 2 2 1 0 2 - - > > //datavibe> info c0 > > Unit UnitType Status %Cmpl Stripe Size(GB) Cache AVerify IgnECC > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > u0 RAID-1 OK - - 232.885 ON - - > > Port Status Unit Size Blocks Serial > --------------------------------------------------------------- > p0 OK u0 232.88 GB 488397168 WD-WMAL718611 > p1 OK u0 232.88 GB 488397168 WD-WMAL718619 > //datavibe> > > -j > -- ______________________________________________________________________ Steve Cousins, Ocean Modeling Group Email: cousins@umit.maine.edu Marine Sciences, 452 Aubert Hall http://rocky.umeoce.maine.edu Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME 04469 Phone: (207) 581-4302