[smartmontools-support]Problems getting smartd and smartctl to work

[Ron N. <s....@sn...>]

I did a search in the archives and I'm sorry to say I
could not find a solution to the problem.  I installed
the tool via "rpm -ivh" on a Red Hat 9 box.

I could not get the smartd daemon to start-up nor
could I find out the details of my scsi hdd to enable
smart monitoring.  I am attaching my dmesg output for
any insights it may provide.

Thanks.

Ron

Basically the smartctl command fails with the
following:

root# /usr/sbin/smartctl -a -T verypermissive /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.26 Copyright (C) 2002-3 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
 
Device: MegaRAID LD0 RAID5 38712R Version: 1.01
scsiModePageOffset: response length too short,
resp_len=1 offset=4 bd_len=0
>> Terminate command early due to bad response to IEC
mode page
Request Sense failed, [Input/output error]
 
Device does not support Error Counter logging
scsiModePageOffset: response length too short,
resp_len=1 offset=4 bd_len=0
Device does not support Self Test logging