[smartmontools-support] SATA disk on MPTSAS controller

[Jan E. <je...@me...>]

Greetings!



The Fujitsu/Sun T1000 server has an onboard SAS controller and is
generally configured with a SATA disk. Unfortunately it seems that
only the general SCSI SMART inquiry works - and which is a little
short on output compared to what one usually gets from ATA disks
connected to ATA controllers. Is there a chance to get more SMART
data from the disk?


# lspci
0001:04:02.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1064 PCI-X
Fusion-MPT SAS (rev 02)

# lsmod
mptsas                 44771  2 
mptscsih               29283  1 mptsas
mptbase                78802  2 mptsas,mptscsih
scsi_transport_sas     25602  1 mptsas


# smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda
smartctl 5.39 2009-08-08 r2872~ [sparc64-unknown-linux-gnu] (openSUSE RPM)
Copyright (C) 2002-9 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device)

A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T
permissive' options.

(^ Did not expect this one to really work; but run anyway just
for completeness.)


# smartctl -d sat -a /dev/sda
smartctl 5.39 2009-08-08 r2872~ [sparc64-unknown-linux-gnu] (openSUSE RPM)
Copyright (C) 2002-9 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device)

A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T
permissive' options.


# smartctl -d scsi -a /dev/sda
smartctl 5.39 2009-08-08 r2872~ [sparc64-unknown-linux-gnu] (openSUSE RPM)
Copyright (C) 2002-9 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

Serial number:       JK1130YAHASYNT
Device type: disk
Local Time is: Fri Feb 26 21:32:11 2010 CET
Device supports SMART and is Enabled
Temperature Warning Disabled or Not Supported
SMART Health Status: OK

Error Counter logging not supported
Device does not support Self Test logging