Re: [smartmontools-support] Support for 3ware RAID cards with 3w_sas driver (9670SE) instead of 3w_XXX (9650SE)

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

Bartek Borek wrote:
>
> Hi to all!
>
> We’ve been successfully using smartctl to gather SMART values from 
> drives behind a 3ware controller on our previous RAID cards (9650SE) 
> but after swapping to a later version (9670SE) we discovered that the 
> 3ware component requires the 3w_9XXX driver to work. Are there any 
> plans to include support for the newer 3ware 9670SE’s that use the 
> 3w_sas driver?
>
> This is quite critical to our support team as they support a large 
> number of servers with either card.
>

3w_sas driver should be supported with SATA drives since smartmontools 5.40:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/ticket/86
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/changeset/3128

Please note that SAS drives are not supported:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/ticket/161


> Many thanks guys! Great tools!
>

Thanks!

Christian