SMART support for SATA drives in SAS enclosures
Is SMART support available for SATA drives in SAS enclosures?
I'm testing this setup
LSI Logic SAS3800X PCI-X SAS controller (mptsas driver) Promise V-Trak J300S SAS/SATA enclosure/expander 12x Seagate ST3500630NS
Linux kernel 2.6.21.1 x86_64 smartmontools-5.37-1.1.fc6 from Fedora Core 6
"smartctl -i -d sat /dev/sdc" gives me
Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed
Same with "-d ata".
If I treat the disk as SCSI ("-d scsi"), the command will not fail, but wil only retrieve the serial number.
Thanks,
Pim
Quoted 10 lines · Pim Zandbergen
Is SMART support available for SATA drives in SAS enclosures?
I'm testing this setup
LSI Logic SAS3800X PCI-X SAS controller (mptsas driver) Promise V-Trak J300S SAS/SATA enclosure/expander 12x Seagate ST3500630NS
Linux kernel 2.6.21.1x86_64smartmontools-5.37-1.1.fc6 from Fedora Core 6
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"smartctl -i -d sat
/dev/sdc" gives meSmartctl: Device Read Identity Failed
I presume /dev/sdc is an actual disk rather than a RAID device made up of several disks. The SAT standard (and smartmontools) don't have a general way of addressing individual disks behind RAID infrastructure.
For recent versions of smartmontools version 5.37 and MPT Fusion SAS HBAs this should work if /dev/sdc is a SATA disk. Your HBA may need a firmware upgrade.
You might fetch sg3_utils version 1.24 and try:
sg_sat_identify /dev/sdc
That needs to work before smartctl has a hope.
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Same with "-d ata".
If I treat the disk as SCSI ("-d scsi"), the command will not fail, but wil only retrieve the serial number.
With MPT Fusion SAS hardware (that I have seen) the SAT layer is in the HBA firmware. Only later versions of the firmware support the SCSI ATA PASS-THROUGH command.
Doug Gilbert
Doug,
/dev/sdc is indeed a physical SATA disk. sg_sat_identify says: "ATA PASS-THROUGH (16) not supported"
I'll look into a firmware update.
Thanks,
Pim
Quoted 45 lines · Douglas Gilbert
Quoted 10 lines · Pim Zandbergen
Is SMART support available for SATA drives in SAS enclosures?
I'm testing this setup
LSI Logic SAS3800X PCI-X SAS controller (mptsas driver) Promise V-Trak J300S SAS/SATA enclosure/expander 12x Seagate ST3500630NS
Linux kernel 2.6.21.1x86_64smartmontools-5.37-1.1.fc6 from Fedora Core 6Quoted 4 lines
"smartctl -i -d sat
/dev/sdc" gives meSmartctl: Device Read Identity Failed
I presume
/dev/sdcis an actual disk rather than a RAID device made up of several disks. The SAT standard (and smartmontools) don't have a general way of addressing individual disks behind RAID infrastructure.For recent versions of smartmontools version 5.37 and MPT Fusion SAS HBAs this should work if
/dev/sdcis a SATA disk. Your HBA may need a firmware upgrade.You might fetch
sg3_utilsversion 1.24 and try:
sg_sat_identify/dev/sdc
That needs to work before smartctl has a hope.Quoted 5 lines
Same with "-d ata".
If I treat the disk as SCSI ("-d scsi"), the command will not fail, but wil only retrieve the serial number.
With MPT Fusion SAS hardware (that I have seen) the SAT layer is in the HBA firmware. Only later versions of the firmware support the SCSI ATA PASS-THROUGH command.
Doug Gilbert
Quoted 10 lines · Douglas Gilbert
For recent versions of smartmontools version 5.37 and MPT Fusion SAS HBAs this should work if
/dev/sdcis a SATA disk. Your HBA may need a firmware upgrade.You might fetch
sg3_utilsversion 1.24 and try:
sg_sat_identify/dev/sdc
That needs to work before smartctl has a hope.
Indeed, a firmware update made sg_sat_identify and the smartmontools work as advertised.
Thanks,
Pim