Re: [Smartmontools-support]Re: Monitoring disks attached to 3ware cards

[Bruce A. <ba...@gr...>]

Hi Jason,

I've issued a new 5.1-16 release -- it has a 3ware-aware smartd.  Please
give it a try and report back.

> > > -- The 3w-xxxx driver makes it impossible to pass a couple of commands to
> > > the drive (enable auto offline and enable attribute autosave).  I think I
> > > can fix the driver -- but would you be willing to test it?  This could
> > > cause major data corruption if I get it wrong, which I am likely to do.
> > >
> > 
> > Perhaps you could get help from the 3ware for this?
> 
> I asked, but they are "too busy".  But I'll add something to the FAQ
> explaining just what is wrong, so that people like yourself can ask them
> to fix it, and tell them precisely what is wrong. Perhaps if enough people
> say something...

I've added something about this to the FAQ section of the smartmontools
home page.  It gives a technical explanation of the problem and the fix.  
Perhaps you can get the 3ware people to pay attention.

Cheers,
	Bruce