Re: [smartmontools-support] Marvell 91xx RAID controller

[Christian F. <Chr...@t-...>]

Теневод Ужасный wrote:
> I'm about to configure a RAID1 on a Marvell 91xx Controller (Board:
> Gigabyte Z68X-UD4-B3) and try to establish some kind of health status
> and temperature monitoring based on smartctl running on Win7 x64.
>
> smartctl -i /dev/sda gives me information about the Marvell VD with no
> SMART capability.. OK.

This is as expected.

> I found out that -d sat,12 option gives me access to the SMART of the
> physical drive(s),

Interesting. This is the first report of a Windows (S)ATA controller 
driver which supports SAT.

Please provide a sample smartctl -x output.

Does -d sat[,16] work?


> but here is a problem regardless of what I type in to
> identify the device (/dev/sda- dev/sda,0 - dev/sda,1 or even
> /dev/sda,10) i only get the information for the disk on physical port 0
> and have no chance to get to the second one.

The notation /dev/sdX,PORT is only supported for 3ware controllers.


> Isthere a possibility to get through to the second drive, or is it
> planned to implement support for this controller?

I'm not aware of functionality to address physical drives via this 
controller's Windows driver.

Please check whether CSMI is implemented:
smartctl -r ioctl,2 -d csmi --scan

Thanks,
Christian