Re: [smartmontools-support]SATA drives and smartd

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

Jon,

Please keep CCing the smartmontools-support list in your replies, so that
we have a record there.

Could you please try an experiment?  Try accessing the device as you are
doing, but use -d ata to tell smartmontools that it's an ATA device:
  smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda
to access the disk that used to be /dev/hde, for example.

If this works, the corresponding smartd.conf entry would also have
-d ata for /dev/sda.

Please try this with a current smartmontools release, not an old release,
since I think at least at one point something was broken and you couldn't
over-ride the device type like this.

Cheers,
	Bruce




On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Jon Smirl wrote:

> Originally the 2.6 kernel was treating SATA drives like IDE ones and using the
> IDE driver. smartd worked with this. Now the kernel has been reworked (as of
> today) to handle SATA drives with the SCSI driver (this is being done to 2.4
> too). I can't figure out how to make smartd work with the new driver. My disk
> has moved from /dev/hde to /dev/sda. Please CC me, I am not subscribed.
> 
> Current log with this smartd.conf
> /dev/hda -a -m jon...@ya...
> /dev/sda -d scsi -m jon...@ya...
> 
> Oct 22 22:02:16 smirl smartd[7561]: Device: /dev/hda, is SMART capable. Adding
> to "monitor" list.
> Oct 22 22:02:16 smirl kernel:   Vendor: ATA       Model: ST380013AS        Rev:
> 0.75
> Oct 22 22:02:16 smirl kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI
> SCSI revision: 05
> Oct 22 22:02:16 smirl smartd[7561]: Device: /dev/sda, opened
> Oct 22 22:02:16 smirl kernel: SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors
> (80026 MB)
> Oct 22 22:02:16 smirl smartd[7561]: Device: /dev/sda, Fetch of IEC (SMART) mode
> page failed, err=3, skip device
> Oct 22 22:02:16 smirl kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through
> Oct 22 22:02:16 smirl smartd[7561]: Unable to register SCSI device /dev/sda at
> line 23 of file /etc/smartd.conf
> Oct 22 22:02:16 smirl kernel:  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 >
> Oct 22 22:02:16 smirl smartd[7561]: Unable to register device /dev/sda -
> exiting.
> Oct 22 22:02:16 smirl kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0,
> lun 0
> 
> 
> Old log:
> 
> Oct 22 14:05:26 smirl smartd[6979]: Device: /dev/hda, is SMART capable. Adding
> to "monitor" list.
> Oct 22 14:05:26 smirl kernel: md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256,
> MD_SB_DISKS=27
> Oct 22 14:05:26 smirl smartd[6979]: Device: /dev/hde, opened
> Oct 22 14:05:26 smirl kernel: md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
> Oct 22 14:05:26 smirl smartd[6979]: Device: /dev/hde, not found in smartd
> database.
> Oct 22 14:05:26 smirl kernel: kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> Oct 22 14:05:26 smirl kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data
> mode.
> Oct 22 14:05:26 smirl smartd[6979]: Device: /dev/hde, is SMART capable. Adding
> to "monitor" list.
> Oct 22 14:05:26 smirl kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 152k freed
> Oct 22 14:05:26 smirl smartd[6979]: Started monitoring 2 ATA and 0 SCSI devices
> 
> 
> 
> =====
> Jon Smirl
> jon...@ya...
> 
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