Re: aacraid and S.M.A.R.T

[Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>]

Martin Samuelsson wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:47:33 -0400
> Mark Salyzyn <Mark_Salyzyn@adaptec.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Jul 31, 2008, at 10:05 AM, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>> YES, that is the whole reason we added the physical access via /dev/ 
>> sg* in the driver!!!
>>
>> You may have to do a '-d ata', the patch to smartmontools to automate  
>> this for SATA devices was not approved by Adaptec. SAS drives work.
> 
> Does that mean that
> 
> [root@disk ~]# smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sg1
> 
> should return something nicer than
> 
> ====
> smartctl version 5.36 [i686-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Martin,
I wouldn't use smartmontools version 5.36 . Could you try
version 5.38?

Also please don't use "-d ata" on the command line; either don't
give a "-d <interface>" argument, or (if there are still problems)
try "-d sat".

Doug Gilbert


> Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device)
> 
> A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.
> ====
> ?
> 
> Without it, I at least get the drive name:
> 
> ====
> [root@disk ~]# smartctl -a /dev/sg1
> smartctl version 5.36 [i686-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Device: WDC      WD3200KS-00PFB0  Version: 21.0
>>> Terminate command early due to bad response to IEC mode page
> A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.
> ====
> 
> The responses are identical for /dev/sdb, by the way. And two permissives state that SMART ENABLE failed in the former case, and that the response to IEC mode page was bad.
> 
> I got what seems to be Dell's latest firmware for the card
> 
> http://support.us.dell.com/support/downloads/format.aspx?releaseid=R155588&c=us&l=en&cs=&s=gen
> 
> (for the CERC SATA 1.5/6ch card, which should be the same), but it didn't like the card.
> 
> AFA0> controller details
> Executing: controller details
> Controller Information
> ----------------------
>          Remote Computer: .
>              Device Name: AFA0
>          Controller Type: Adaptec 2610SA
>              Access Mode: READ-WRITE
> Controller Serial Number: Last Six Digits = C31E83
>       Number of Channels: 1
>      Devices per Channel: 15
> Controller Physical Slot: 2
>           Controller CPU: i960 series
>     Controller CPU Speed: 100 Mhz
>        Controller Memory: 64 Mbytes
>            Battery State: Not Present
> 
> Component Revisions
> -------------------
>                 CLI: 4.1-0 (Build #7420)
>                 API: 4.1-0 (Build #7420)
>     Miniport Driver: 1.1-5 (Build #2453)
> Controller Software: 4.2-1 (Build #9304)
>     Controller BIOS: 4.2-1 (Build #9304)
> Controller Firmware: (Build #9304)
> 
> Regards,
> /Sam
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