From: Steven H. <ki...@mu...> - 2008-05-19 08:19:00
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I notice on the new page that Bruce Allen has been testing contributions from native areca support. Just been in to unfortunate position to have a raid failure which smartd didn't notice at all. The raid is based on areca so I'm hoping these changes will help fix this is there any news on this and would it help if we volunteered to help test? Regards Steve ================================================ This e.mail is private and confidential between Multiplay (UK) Ltd. and the person or entity to whom it is addressed. In the event of misdirection, the recipient is prohibited from using, copying, printing or otherwise disseminating it or any information contained in it. In the event of misdirection, illegible or incomplete transmission please telephone +44 845 868 1337 or return the E.mail to pos...@mu.... |
From: Steven H. <ki...@mu...> - 2008-05-18 15:53:40
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I notice on the new page that Bruce Allen has been testing contributions from native areca support. Just been in to unfortunate position to have a raid failure which smartd didn't notice at all. The raid is based on areca so I'm hoping these changes will help fix this is there any news on this and would it help if we volunteered to help test? Regards Steve ================================================ This e.mail is private and confidential between Multiplay (UK) Ltd. and the person or entity to whom it is addressed. In the event of misdirection, the recipient is prohibited from using, copying, printing or otherwise disseminating it or any information contained in it. In the event of misdirection, illegible or incomplete transmission please telephone +44 845 868 1337 or return the E.mail to pos...@mu.... |
From: Steven H. <ki...@mu...> - 2008-06-12 21:40:47
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No one able to comment on this, Bruce? We would like to put some time into the project to get this support in if that would help. Regards Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Hartland" >I notice on the new page that Bruce Allen has been testing > contributions from native areca support. Just been in to > unfortunate position to have a raid failure which smartd > didn't notice at all. > > The raid is based on areca so I'm hoping these changes will > help fix this is there any news on this and would it help > if we volunteered to help test? ================================================ This e.mail is private and confidential between Multiplay (UK) Ltd. and the person or entity to whom it is addressed. In the event of misdirection, the recipient is prohibited from using, copying, printing or otherwise disseminating it or any information contained in it. In the event of misdirection, illegible or incomplete transmission please telephone +44 845 868 1337 or return the E.mail to pos...@mu.... |
From: Bruce A. <ba...@gr...> - 2008-06-13 14:01:19
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Subject: EXPERIMENTAL Areca support (smartctl only) Dear Smartmontools users, I've just checked in (into smartmontools CVS) some code that implemnents smartmontools on Areca SATA RAID controllers. This is work in progress and not yet ready for production use. In particular the locking scheme is currently not working. I'll try to get this sorted out in the coming days, and to get smartd support integrated as well, and to update the man pages. A typical command line for smartctl is: smartctl -a -d areca,5 /dev/sg2 to address the 5th disk on an Areca controller. Note that the controller is addressed via a SCSI generic device /dev/sg? not via the OS disk interface /dev/sd?. For this to work one must have the latest Areca firmware (version 1.45, dated 10 June 2008) or later. So far as I can see, this is not yet available publicly from Areca, however I expect that they will make it available in the near future. Thanks very much to Billion Wu and Hank Wu from Areca for their assistance. I hope that in a week or so when this is all working in a good way, we can issue an experimental release of smartmontools so that users can try it out. Cheers, Bruce On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Steven Hartland wrote: > No one able to comment on this, Bruce? We would like to put > some time into the project to get this support in if that > would help. > > Regards > Steve > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steven Hartland" > >> I notice on the new page that Bruce Allen has been testing >> contributions from native areca support. Just been in to >> unfortunate position to have a raid failure which smartd >> didn't notice at all. >> >> The raid is based on areca so I'm hoping these changes will >> help fix this is there any news on this and would it help >> if we volunteered to help test? > > > ================================================ > This e.mail is private and confidential between Multiplay (UK) Ltd. and the person or entity to whom it is addressed. In the event of misdirection, the recipient is prohibited from using, copying, printing or otherwise disseminating it or any information contained in it. > > In the event of misdirection, illegible or incomplete transmission please telephone +44 845 868 1337 > or return the E.mail to pos...@mu.... > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php > _______________________________________________ > Smartmontools-support mailing list > Sma...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/smartmontools-support > |
From: Steven H. <ki...@mu...> - 2008-06-14 02:31:26
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Many thanks for the update and your work on this. I await Areca's firmware update and the smartmontools with anticipation. Hopefully we can help you out with some in the field testing as we have quite a few areca backed machines running under FreeBSD here. Regards Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Allen" <ba...@gr...> > Subject: EXPERIMENTAL Areca support (smartctl only) > > Dear Smartmontools users, > > I've just checked in (into smartmontools CVS) some code that implemnents smartmontools on Areca SATA RAID controllers. This is > work in progress and not yet ready for production use. In particular the locking scheme is currently not working. I'll try to > get this sorted out in the coming days, and to get smartd support integrated as well, and to update the man pages. > > A typical command line for smartctl is: > smartctl -a -d areca,5 /dev/sg2 > to address the 5th disk on an Areca controller. Note that the controller is addressed via a SCSI generic device /dev/sg? not > via the OS disk interface /dev/sd?. > > For this to work one must have the latest Areca firmware (version 1.45, dated 10 June 2008) or later. So far as I can see, this > is not yet available publicly from Areca, however I expect that they will make it available in the near future. > > Thanks very much to Billion Wu and Hank Wu from Areca for their assistance. > > I hope that in a week or so when this is all working in a good way, we can issue an experimental release of smartmontools so > that users can try it out. > > Cheers, > Bruce > > On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Steven Hartland wrote: > >> No one able to comment on this, Bruce? We would like to put >> some time into the project to get this support in if that >> would help. >> >> Regards >> Steve >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Steven Hartland" >> >>> I notice on the new page that Bruce Allen has been testing >>> contributions from native areca support. Just been in to >>> unfortunate position to have a raid failure which smartd >>> didn't notice at all. >>> >>> The raid is based on areca so I'm hoping these changes will >>> help fix this is there any news on this and would it help >>> if we volunteered to help test? >> >> >> ================================================ >> This e.mail is private and confidential between Multiplay (UK) Ltd. and the person or entity to whom it is addressed. In the >> event of misdirection, the recipient is prohibited from using, copying, printing or otherwise disseminating it or any >> information contained in it. >> >> In the event of misdirection, illegible or incomplete transmission please telephone +44 845 868 1337 >> or return the E.mail to pos...@mu.... >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. >> It's the best place to buy or sell services for >> just about anything Open Source. >> http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php >> _______________________________________________ >> Smartmontools-support mailing list >> Sma...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/smartmontools-support >> > ================================================ This e.mail is private and confidential between Multiplay (UK) Ltd. and the person or entity to whom it is addressed. In the event of misdirection, the recipient is prohibited from using, copying, printing or otherwise disseminating it or any information contained in it. In the event of misdirection, illegible or incomplete transmission please telephone +44 845 868 1337 or return the E.mail to pos...@mu.... |
From: Bruce A. <ba...@gr...> - 2008-06-14 05:58:57
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Hi Steven, A bit of bad news -- so far our support is Linux-only. However it may be straightfoward to port this to FreeBSD. Most of the interaction is via SATA commands wrapped in SCSI command blocks, which should be portable. Cheers, Bruce On Sat, 14 Jun 2008, Steven Hartland wrote: > Many thanks for the update and your work on this. I await Areca's firmware > update and the smartmontools with anticipation. Hopefully we can help > you out with some in the field testing as we have quite a few areca backed > machines running under FreeBSD here. > > Regards > Steve > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bruce Allen" <ba...@gr...> > > >> Subject: EXPERIMENTAL Areca support (smartctl only) >> >> Dear Smartmontools users, >> >> I've just checked in (into smartmontools CVS) some code that implemnents smartmontools on Areca SATA RAID controllers. This is >> work in progress and not yet ready for production use. In particular the locking scheme is currently not working. I'll try to >> get this sorted out in the coming days, and to get smartd support integrated as well, and to update the man pages. >> >> A typical command line for smartctl is: >> smartctl -a -d areca,5 /dev/sg2 >> to address the 5th disk on an Areca controller. Note that the controller is addressed via a SCSI generic device /dev/sg? not >> via the OS disk interface /dev/sd?. >> >> For this to work one must have the latest Areca firmware (version 1.45, dated 10 June 2008) or later. So far as I can see, this >> is not yet available publicly from Areca, however I expect that they will make it available in the near future. >> >> Thanks very much to Billion Wu and Hank Wu from Areca for their assistance. >> >> I hope that in a week or so when this is all working in a good way, we can issue an experimental release of smartmontools so >> that users can try it out. >> >> Cheers, >> Bruce >> >> On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Steven Hartland wrote: >> >>> No one able to comment on this, Bruce? We would like to put >>> some time into the project to get this support in if that >>> would help. >>> >>> Regards >>> Steve >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Steven Hartland" >>> >>>> I notice on the new page that Bruce Allen has been testing >>>> contributions from native areca support. Just been in to >>>> unfortunate position to have a raid failure which smartd >>>> didn't notice at all. >>>> >>>> The raid is based on areca so I'm hoping these changes will >>>> help fix this is there any news on this and would it help >>>> if we volunteered to help test? >>> >>> >>> ================================================ >>> This e.mail is private and confidential between Multiplay (UK) Ltd. and the person or entity to whom it is addressed. In the >>> event of misdirection, the recipient is prohibited from using, copying, printing or otherwise disseminating it or any >>> information contained in it. >>> >>> In the event of misdirection, illegible or incomplete transmission please telephone +44 845 868 1337 >>> or return the E.mail to pos...@mu.... >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. >>> It's the best place to buy or sell services for >>> just about anything Open Source. >>> http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Smartmontools-support mailing list >>> Sma...@li... >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/smartmontools-support >>> >> > > > ================================================ > This e.mail is private and confidential between Multiplay (UK) Ltd. and the person or entity to whom it is addressed. In the event of misdirection, the recipient is prohibited from using, copying, printing or otherwise disseminating it or any information contained in it. > > In the event of misdirection, illegible or incomplete transmission please telephone +44 845 868 1337 > or return the E.mail to pos...@mu.... > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php > _______________________________________________ > Smartmontools-support mailing list > Sma...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/smartmontools-support > |
From: Steven H. <ki...@mu...> - 2008-06-15 13:01:46
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Denied! Will wait to see how that goes, might be able to dedicate some dev resource to look at porting depending on its complexity if that's of help. Regards Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Allen" <ba...@gr...> > Hi Steven, > > A bit of bad news -- so far our support is Linux-only. However it may be > straightfoward to port this to FreeBSD. Most of the interaction is via > SATA commands wrapped in SCSI command blocks, which should be portable. ================================================ This e.mail is private and confidential between Multiplay (UK) Ltd. and the person or entity to whom it is addressed. In the event of misdirection, the recipient is prohibited from using, copying, printing or otherwise disseminating it or any information contained in it. In the event of misdirection, illegible or incomplete transmission please telephone +44 845 868 1337 or return the E.mail to pos...@mu.... |