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From: Richard Scobie <richard@sauce.co.nz>
Subject: Re: Question: how to identify failing disk in a RAID1
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:01:25 +1200
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Keith Roberts wrote:

> Reading the documentation for smartmontools I got the impression that it 
> cannot work with RAID controllers, apart from 3ware and some Highpoint. 
> Maybe I'm getting mixed up with hardware raid?

Hardware controllers are a different story, (you can add to LSI to the 
above). There are no problems with md RAID.

> So is it safe to use all features of smartmontools, including running 
> tests, on a Linux software RAID1 array?

No problems at all that I am aware of. I run smartd and perform long 
self checks weekly on all drives I have in live RAID 1 and 5 arrays.

Regards,

Richard