Re: [smartmontools-support] smartctl - megaraid INQUIRY failed in a LSI SAS1064E with SATA disks

[Tim S. <ti...@bu...>]

MIDGARD Internet wrote:
> Hello,
>
> my machine environment is Debian Linux 5.0.3, Linux 2.6.24-7-pve on x86_64 and I get an INQUIRY failed message when I exec the command: 
> # smartctl -a -d megaraid,0 -T permissive /dev/sda
>   

I believe that chip doens't use the megaraid driver - it uses the mptsas
driver - so the -d megaraid is no use to you.  Try just running:

smartctl -a /dev/sg0

(sg1 etc.)

Unfortunately, I've found the smart passthrough on MPT chips buggy
(probably an LSI firmware bug), so you may want to tread carefully when
using this.  See my recent post to this list, and the thread on
linux-scsi etc.

Ta,

Tim.