Re: [smartmontools-support]3ware 9500S-12 + SuSE kernel 2.6.5-7.95-smp.

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

Hi Claus,

The 9500 interface is now working and checked into CVS.  I'd be grateful
if you could give it a try and report back. I'm especially interested in
reports about 64-bit or big-endian (or both) hardware.

You'll need to follow the instructions at http://smartmontools.sf.net/ to
check a copy out of CVS and build it.  You'll have to use the 'character
device' syntax to address the disks, for example:

./smartctl -a -d 3ware,0 /dev/twa0
./smartctl -a -d 3ware,1 /dev/twa0
./smartctl -a -d 3ware,2 /dev/twa0

for the first three disks on the first controller, and

./smartctl -a -d 3ware,0 /dev/twa1
./smartctl -a -d 3ware,1 /dev/twa1

for the first two disks on the second controller.  Likewise use /dev/twa?
in /etc/smartd.conf.

If you don't have the /dev/twa? devices on your system, please run the
tw_cli or 3dmd tools once: this will automatically create the /dev/twa?
nodes.

Cheers,
	Bruce

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Bruce Allen wrote:

> Hi Claus,
> 
> The bad news: the 3w-9xxx driver used by the 3ware 9500S-X series
> controllers does NOT support the ATA passthru command used by
> smartmontools.
> 
> The good news: there is a character device interface which can be used
> instead, but I need to develop the correct smartmontools interface to
> it.  I just got a 9500-4 card set up last week, and the 3w-9xxx author
> (Adam Radford) is sending me some sample character device interface code
> tomorrow.  So hopefully I'll get it working quickly.
> 
> The command-line interface will look something like this:
>    smartctl -a -d 9xxx /dev/twa0
> where /dev/twq[0-15] are the character interface devices.
> 
> I'll probably ask you to act as one of the testers -- hopefully I'll have
> some test code ready in a few days.
> 
> Cheers,
> 	Bruce
> 
> On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Claus Jeppesen wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Dear Smartmontools-support,
> > 
> > I've got a dual Xeon 2,4Ghz with a 3ware 9500S-12 controller with 12 Maxtor
> > 7Y250M0 SATA disks.
> > 
> > I've downloaded the latest smartmontools-5.32-1.i386.rpm from sourceforge.net.
> > However - 
> > 
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > testserver:~ # smartctl -a -d 3ware,0 /dev/sda
> > smartctl version 5.32 Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
> > Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
> > 
> > WARNING - NO DEVICE FOUND ON 3WARE CONTROLLER (disk 0)
> > Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device)
> > 
> > A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T
> > permissive' options.
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 
> > I can see that dmesg reports:
> > 
> >   3w-9xxx: scsi1: ERROR: (0x03:0x0101): Invalid command opcode:opcode=0x80.
> > 
> > in response to the smartctl command.
> > 
> > I'm using 3ware driver version: 
> > 
> >   3ware 9000 Storage Controller device driver for Linux v2.26.00.006fw.
> > 
> > The firmware on the 9500 card is:
> > 
> >   Firmware Version = FE9X 2.02.00.011
> > 
> > Please let me know:
> > 
> >  a) If the problem is fixed.
> >  b) If not - if I can assist in solving the problem - e.g. test code
> >     for you.
> > 
> > Thanx,
> > 
> > Claus.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Claus Jeppesen
> > Memphys Center, SDU
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> > 5230 Odense M, Denmark
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