Re: [smartmontools-support]what about /dev/cciss/ devices -- again

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

I thought that the conclusion of the thread was that this is a hardware
SCSI RAID device, and that smartmontools has no support for it.  We'd be
happy if someone added such support, but no one has volunteered.

Cheers,
	Bruce

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, K.S.Herrmann wrote:

> Hi,
> a previous thread with the above topic dried out.
> I run into the same (?) problem with cciss devices.
> I have 3 SCSI disks  as a RAID 5 array  behind /dev/cciss/c0d0 on a
> compaq/hp Proliant ML 370 server running redhat 9 on kernel 2.4.26.
> Your questions in the named thread may I answer as follows:
> 
> 1)
> Entering
>   /dev/cciss/c0d0 -d scsi
> in /etc/smartd.conf and doing
> ~#/etc/rc.d/init.d/smartd restart
> returns:
> ~#Shutting down smartd:                                      [FAILED]
> ~#Starting smartd:                                           [FAILED]
> 
> 
> and in /var/log/messages I get accordingly:
> 
> ---snip
> smartd: smartd shutdown failed
> smartd[1550]: smartd version 5.33 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 
> 2002-4 Bruce Allen
> smartd[1550]: Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
> smartd[1550]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf
> smartd[1550]: Drive: /dev/cciss/c0d0, implied '-a' Directive on line 25 
> of file /etc/smartd.conf
> smartd[1550]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf parsed.
> smartd[1550]: Device: /dev/cciss/c0d0, opened
> Linus smartd[1550]: Device: /dev/cciss/c0d0, failed on INQUIRY; skip device
> smartd[1550]: Unable to register SCSI device /dev/cciss/c0d0 at line 25 
> of file /etc/smartd.conf
> smartd[1550]: Unable to register device /dev/cciss/c0d0 (no Directive -d 
> removable). Exiting.
> smartd: smartd startup failed
> 
> ---snip
> 
> 
> 2)
> ~#smartctl -a -d scsi /dev/cciss/c0d0
> 
> gives
> 
> ~#smartctl -a -d scsi /dev/cciss/c0d0
> smartctl version 5.33 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Standard Inquiry (36 bytes) failed [Invalid request code]
> Retrying with a 64 byte Standard Inquiry
> Standard Inquiry (64 bytes) failed [Invalid request code]
> A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more 
> '-T permissive' options.
> ~#
> 
> 
> 
> Any suggestions or hints  ?
> Karlheinz
> 
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