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

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

I appreciate your quick reply.  Now I know that there
is no further point in trying to get this to work. 
Just curious, are there any other open-source
alternatives or am I out of luck?  I'm sure there are
proprietary options but I would think they would be
fairly costly.

Thanks again.

Ron

--- Erik_Inge_Bols&#248; <sou...@tv...>
wrote:
> 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.
> 
> --
> Erik I. Bols&#248; | email: <knan at mo.himolde.no>
> The UNIX philosophy basically involves giving you
> enough rope to
> hang yourself.  And then a couple of feet more, just
> to be sure.