3ware 9750 SATA Drive Support

[vpayno]

Hi,

I've attached a patch that allows smartctl to access SATA drives on LSI 3ware 9750 controllers.

I've been using this version on multiple systems (with 3ware 9650, 9750, and on-board SATA and SAS only) for almost a month without any problems.

Please let me know if I need to make changes and re-submit it again, or if there's a different procedure for submitting this patch.

Regards,

Victor

[vpayno]

Patch that adds 3ware 9750 SATA support

[chrfranke]

r3128. Thanks for the patch.

Patch for os_linux.cpp modified to avoid duplicate code. Patch for dev_legacy.cpp not applied because this module is no longer used on Linux.

Please test also whether 48bit ATA commands work: smartctl -x /dev/tw...

[art9]

It is not really clean: should smartmontools support sas drives with 3ware sas controllers?

[chrfranke]

Replying to art9:

It is not really clean: should smartmontools support sas drives with 3ware sas controllers?

No - the 3ware specific code in os_linux.cpp implements only ATA pass-through. I don't know whether 3ware SAS driver and firmware support SCSI pass-through to physical disks. Please create a separate ticket if desired.