On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:47:33 -0400 Mark Salyzyn <Mark_Salyzyn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Jul 31, 2008, at 10:05 AM, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > > > Mark Salyzyn wrote: > >> aacraid driver is not the emulation. The Firmware itself has a SAT > >> 0.9 > >> translation layer to the raw SATA drives at the physical transport, > >> the > >> Firmware then deals with all the targets as SCSI representations. > > > > Mark, > > Is that SAT interface at the physical transport accessible > > to something like smartmontools? > > YES, that is the whole reason we added the physical access via /dev/ > sg* in the driver!!! > > You may have to do a '-d ata', the patch to smartmontools to automate > this for SATA devices was not approved by Adaptec. SAS drives work. Does that mean that [root@disk ~]# smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sg1 should return something nicer than ==== smartctl version 5.36 [i686-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ 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. ==== ? Without it, I at least get the drive name: ==== [root@disk ~]# smartctl -a /dev/sg1 smartctl version 5.36 [i686-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Device: WDC WD3200KS-00PFB0 Version: 21.0 >> Terminate command early due to bad response to IEC mode page A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options. ==== The responses are identical for /dev/sdb, by the way. And two permissives state that SMART ENABLE failed in the former case, and that the response to IEC mode page was bad. I got what seems to be Dell's latest firmware for the card http://support.us.dell.com/support/downloads/format.aspx?releaseid=R155588&c=us&l=en&cs=&s=gen (for the CERC SATA 1.5/6ch card, which should be the same), but it didn't like the card. AFA0> controller details Executing: controller details Controller Information ---------------------- Remote Computer: . Device Name: AFA0 Controller Type: Adaptec 2610SA Access Mode: READ-WRITE Controller Serial Number: Last Six Digits = C31E83 Number of Channels: 1 Devices per Channel: 15 Controller Physical Slot: 2 Controller CPU: i960 series Controller CPU Speed: 100 Mhz Controller Memory: 64 Mbytes Battery State: Not Present Component Revisions ------------------- CLI: 4.1-0 (Build #7420) API: 4.1-0 (Build #7420) Miniport Driver: 1.1-5 (Build #2453) Controller Software: 4.2-1 (Build #9304) Controller BIOS: 4.2-1 (Build #9304) Controller Firmware: (Build #9304) Regards, /Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
