On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 11:03:45AM -0400, Steve Cousins wrote: > > These are SATA drives and except for the one machine that has a 3Ware > 8506 card in it I haven't been able to get SMART programs to do anything > with these drives. How do others deal with this? > I use the tw_cli program to check up on my 3ware stuff. It took me quite a bit of time to figure that one out. I don't have any automated monitoring set up, but it'd be simple enough to script. I check on the array every so often and run a verify every few months to see if it kicks a disk out (it hasn't yet). 0 root@datavibe:~# tw_cli //datavibe> info Ctl Model Ports Drives Units NotOpt RRate VRate BBU ------------------------------------------------------------------------ c0 8006-2LP 2 2 1 0 2 - - //datavibe> info c0 Unit UnitType Status %Cmpl Stripe Size(GB) Cache AVerify IgnECC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ u0 RAID-1 OK - - 232.885 ON - - Port Status Unit Size Blocks Serial --------------------------------------------------------------- p0 OK u0 232.88 GB 488397168 WD-WMAL718611 p1 OK u0 232.88 GB 488397168 WD-WMAL718619 //datavibe> -j -- -------------------------------------------------------- Rev. Jeffrey Paul -datavibe- sneak@xxxxxxxxxxxx aim:x736e65616b pgp:0xD9B3C17D phone:877-748-3467 9440 0C7F C598 01CA 2F17 D098 0A3A 4B8F D9B3 C17D -------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html