From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Douglas Gilbert Subject: Re: aacraid and S.M.A.R.T Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:05:18 -0400 Message-ID: <4891C69E.9000106@torque.net> References: <20080730235450.0fcc21a6.sam@home.se> Reply-To: dougg@torque.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from elrond2.infotech.no ([82.134.31.41]:40619 "EHLO elrond2.infotech.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751387AbYGaOFb (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:05:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Salyzyn Cc: Martin Samuelsson , Linux-Scsi , AACRAID Mark Salyzyn wrote: > aacraid driver is not the emulation. The Firmware itself has a SAT 0.9 > translation layer to the raw SATA drives at the physical transport, the > Firmware then deals with all the targets as SCSI representations. Mark, Is that SAT interface at the physical transport accessible to something like smartmontools? "SAT 0.9 transport layer" does not correspond to any t10 numbering. Is the "0.9" meant to imply that the implementation is just shy of compliance to the SAT-1 standard? [Perhaps a version descriptor in the INQUIRY response answers my question.] Doug Gilbert > SMART was supposed to be emulated, but on that old card it was never > tested ... make sure you have the latest Firmware on the card just in > case something got fixed ... > > Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn > > On Jul 30, 2008, at 5:54 PM, Martin Samuelsson wrote: > >> Hello list, >> >> I have an old Adaptec 2610SA SATA RAID controller with six disks. As >> I'm a bit curious, I'd like to know, for example, the temperature they >> report. (afacli can't report those, and I suspect aaccli can't either) >> It seemed utterly impossible until I saw the expose_physicals module >> option, but after switching that on, I can at least see traces of the >> individual disks. >> >> If I understand it correctly, aacraid provides an emulation layer >> between what I see and the physical disks, passing known commands and >> responses back and forth. However, S.M.A.R.T commands doesn't seem to >> be among those known ones, is that correct? >> >> I'm running CentOS 5 with kernel 2.6.18, which is kind of old. Would >> running a spanking new kernel make me happier and support reading the >> temperature from the individual disks? >> >> Regards, >> /Sam >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > >