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

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On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Ron Nath wrote:
>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.

You are using it on a Megaraid "logical disk". This is a synthetic disk
made from several disks in a RAID setup. Monitoring this is currently not
supported.

I've made a try at monitoring the physical disks behind the RAID, but that
entails custom programming for the Megaraid controller. (See megaraid.h
in the Linux kernel) I've not got that right yet. Anyone else feels like
making a try, feel free.

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