From: midfros <mi...@gm...> - 2013-08-28 07:16:47
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What has better support of smartmontools under 64-bit Windows 7/2008R2 - LSI 3ware or LSI MegaRAID? As I understand MegaRAID is future of LSI, but smartmontools support 3ware better? |
From: Christian F. <Chr...@t-...> - 2013-08-30 19:55:46
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midfros wrote: > What has better support of smartmontools under 64-bit Windows 7/2008R2 - LSI 3ware or LSI MegaRAID? > As I understand MegaRAID is future of LSI, but smartmontools support 3ware better? > The 3ware driver only supports the old Windows SMART I/O controls, therefore newer smartctl functionality (-l xerror, --set ...) does not work. SATA drives behind 3ware SAS controllers may not work at all. According to a user report, SATA drives behind a LSI MegaRAID controller works with smartctl because the MegaRAID Windows driver implements CSMI. In theory, the CSMI pass-through I/O control should support all ATA commands used by smartctl. In practice, I don't know because there was no further feedback. http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/ticket/243 Thanks, Christian |