Re: [smartmontools-support] Difference between Offical and Distrubution of smartctl for LSI HBA Case

[Bruce A. <ba...@gr...>]

Sam,

What happens on 5.37 with smartctl -i -d sat /dev/sdb ?  And with '-d 
ata'?

Cheers,
 	Bruce


On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, sam song wrote:

>> Hello,
>>
>> Sorry the first post was a little mess. Pls read this one pls.
>>
>> On one server PC, I found that smartctl 5.36 of Fedora Core 6 can work
> with
>> SATA Disk
>> attached with LSI HBA card but not for official 5.37 I compiled locally.
>>
>> Official 5.37 version:
>> [root@sam smartmontools-5.37]# ./smartctl -i /dev/sdb
>> smartctl version 5.37 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
>> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> Probable ATA device behind a SAT layer
>> Try an additional '-d ata' or '-d sat' argument.
>>
>> Distribution 5.36 version:
>> [root@sam smartmontools-5.37]# smartctl -i /dev/sdb
>> smartctl version 5.36 [i686-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce
>> Allen
>> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> Device: ATA      ST3160812AS      Version: E
>> Serial number:             9LS0NYSF
>> Device type: disk
>> Local Time is: Tue Jun 12 10:58:21 2007 CST
>> Device supports SMART and is Enabled
>> Temperature Warning Disabled or Not Supported
>> [root@sam smartmontools-5.37]# lspci | grep LSI
>> 01:00.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1068E
>> PCI-Express
>> Fusion-MPT SAS (rev 02)
>> [root@sam smartmontools-5.37]#
>>
>> I wonder how it could be.
>
> I found that it's 5.37 version upgrade itself finally. In 5.37, we need to
> add '-d scsi' in the command to tell it clearly - Now pls follow scsi
> channel to finish the test process. Before 5.37 version, it can
> automatically detect the test target property. Ummm...
>
> Here is the workable case.
>
> [root@sam image-smart]# ./smartctl -i -d scsi /dev/sda
> smartctl version 5.37 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>
> Serial number:             9LS0Q7QM
> Device type: disk
> Local Time is: Mon Jul  9 10:13:09 2007 CST
> Device supports SMART and is Enabled
> Temperature Warning Disabled or Not Supported
> [root@sam image-smart]#
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sam
>
>
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