Re: [smartmontools-support] SAT autodetection for MegaRaid

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

Christian Franke wrote:
> Christian Franke wrote:
>> Alex Samorukov wrote:
>>> Hi Artem,
>>>
>>> Initially it was done because i found that SAT can easily degrade 
>>> raid and in the worst case - destroy the array. Later i identified  
>>> "unsafe" commands and blocked them in the code (for Linux and 
>>> FreeBSD) and now on all my arrays (about ~30 i guess) "smatctl -x 
>>> /dev/sda" do not cause any problems. So its _probably_ safe to 
>>> remove this. It would be great to see feedback from other 
>>> users/developers before final decision.
>>>
>>
>> I would suggest to add a new -d option (e.g. -d megaraid,N,auto) to 
>> enable SAT auto-detection on demand:
>
> Proposed patch attached. Please test if possible.

I'm working on a controller independent solution which may obsolete this 
patch. Will be committed soon.

Christian