Re: [smartmontools-support] New LSI MegaRAID controllers under Windows

[Giese, R. <rei...@ts...>]

Hello,

does the output of smartctl (listed below) give any new information in my case?
Or does it only prove that the driver has no ATA/SCSI pass-through functionality?

Thanks & Regards
Reinhold Giese

-----Original Message-----
From: Giese, Reinhold 
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 9:06 AM
To: 'Christian Franke'
Cc: sma...@li...
Subject: RE: [smartmontools-support] New LSI MegaRAID controllers under Windows

Hello,

requested output is:

C:\Program Files (x86)\smartmontools\bin>smartctl -r ioctl,2 -d csmi --scan
 \\.\Scsi0:: successfully opened
  IOCTL_SCSI_MINIPORT(CC_CSMI_1) failed, Error=1117
 \\.\Scsi1:: successfully opened
  IOCTL_SCSI_MINIPORT(CC_CSMI_1) failed, Error=1117
 \\.\Scsi2:: successfully opened
  IOCTL_SCSI_MINIPORT(CC_CSMI_1) failed, Error=1117

C:\Program Files (x86)\smartmontools\bin>

Regards
Reinhold Giese

-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Franke [mailto:Chr...@t-...] 
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 9:48 PM
To: Giese, Reinhold
Cc: sma...@li...
Subject: Re: [smartmontools-support] New LSI MegaRAID controllers under Windows

Giese, Reinhold wrote:
> I'm working on a server with Windows 2012 that has new LSI MegaRAID controllers (one LSI SAS2208 based controller, and one LSI SW RAID controller embedded in Intel Patsburg).
>
> I have worked with smartmontools-6.2 under Windows 2012 , and I didn't succeed in looking through the RAID controllers to the real physical disks with this tool version.
> According to http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/Supported_RAID-Controllers this should be possible for LSI MegaRAID SAS RAID and Windows.
> However - if I read http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/ticket/243#comment:7 thoroughly, it seems that the tests for LSI MegaRAID SAS RAID and Windows have been made with the old controller "LSI SAS 1064E", which was able to pass the physical disks directly to the OS.
>
> If I try it with the two controllers mentioned in the beginning, only the controllers themselves are shown as devices (see attachment smart_out.txt), not the physical disks.
> No /dev/csmi devices can be seen.

Please provide output of "smartctl -r ioctl,2 -d csmi --scan" to check whether basic CSMI functionality is implemented. The CSMI support in smartmontools was developed for Intel RST only. Other drivers may have subtle differences which prevent correct drive addressing etc.

>
> My question: Is there a way to work with smartmontools-6.2 under Windows 2012 and newer LSI controllers, that are not able to pass the physical disks to the OS?

No. In general, if a driver does not provide any (documented) ATA/SCSI pass-through functionality, there is no way to add support to smartmontools.

Thanks,
Christian