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Re: [smartmontools-support]smartmon tools with SCSI SATA RAID
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From: Richard B. <bo...@sa...> - 2004-11-19 18:00:02
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On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Bruce Allen wrote: Dear Bruce and Co., I got a response from Intel. To my asking if the controller in question uses a Marvell or Marvell-compatible chip set, the response I got was: "The Intel(R) RAID Controller SRCS14L uses dedicated Intel(R) 80303 I/O 100MHz processor." Which does not necessarily answer the question, but it probably does, in a negative way. Rich > > > > I still need to find out about the Intel SATA controller. > > > > Is the driver libata or something else? > > > I must confess a certain ignorance of this. It is a hardware RAID system, > > and the operating system sees the array as a single SCSI drive. I think > > the disk array driver is "gdth." At least is loaded, and shows it being > > used 5 times. > > If it's hardware RAID, I think you're out of luck, unless it uses a > Marvell chipset. But perhaps there is something that I don't know... > > Cheers, > Bruce > > > > > > > Hi Richard, > > > > > > > > > > Please continue to copy the list. > > > > > > > > > > > We have a couple of different RAID controllers on our various systems. > > > > > > One of our servers, most recently aquired, has an Intel RAID > > > > > > controller which supports 3 SATA drives on each of two channels, and > > > > > > presents the two groups of drives to the system as two SCSI drives. > > > > > > We are running Fedora Core 2 (which will be FC 3 before too long) > > > > > > which comes with smartmontools 5.21. Is there any way of making this > > > > > > work on our system? > > > > > > > > > > If this RAID controller is based on a Marvell chip set, it should work > > > > > with the latest version of smartmontools (experimental release 5.33). Use > > > > > '-d marvell' as the device type. > > > > > > > > > > > We have other systems similarly set up using Adaptec ATA RAID 2400A > > > > > > controllers (these are running RedHat prior to FC2 at the moment). Is > > > > > > the situation any different for them? > > > > > > > > > > Same answer. If they use the Marvell controller chip set internally, > > > > > then yes. Else no. > > > > > > > > > > Please let me know what you find out. > > > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > Bruce > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > ************************************************ > > > > Richard Bonomo > > > > UW Space Astronomy Laboratory > > > > ph: (608) 263-4683 telefacsimile: (608) 263-0361 > > > > SAL-related email: bo...@sa... > > > > all other email: bo...@ec... > > > > web page URL: http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~bonomo > > > > ************************************************ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > ************************************************ > > Richard Bonomo > > UW Space Astronomy Laboratory > > ph: (608) 263-4683 telefacsimile: (608) 263-0361 > > SAL-related email: bo...@sa... > > all other email: bo...@ec... > > web page URL: http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~bonomo > > ************************************************ > > > > > -- ************************************************ Richard Bonomo UW Space Astronomy Laboratory ph: (608) 263-4683 telefacsimile: (608) 263-0361 SAL-related email: bo...@sa... all other email: bo...@ec... web page URL: http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~bonomo ************************************************ |