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

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On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Ron Nath wrote:
>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.

There are Dell's package of tools for the megaraid cards, but those are
not opensource. And I don't think they do Smart monitoring. They do send
you mail when a disk has failed, however. (see megamon)

(http://www.domsch.com/linux/)

The controller might do some internal smart monitoring in firmware for
deciding when to fail a disk, but this is guesswork on my part.

Note that I'm told by the driver developers that doing "passthrough"
commands to the hardware drives is quite possible - the closed-source
management utility does it, after all - I've simply not found the right
method yet. And the driver developers (employed by Dell) have other
priorities than handholding me through it ;)

You could contact Dell or LSI, I suppose, and try to convince them having
support in smartmontools would be a good thing :)

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