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Date:      Thu, 17 May 2007 15:18:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Nick Jagger <nckjagger@yahoo.com>
To:        Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: smartmontools on Compaq smart array fails
Message-ID:  <120655.64916.qm@web57505.mail.re1.yahoo.com>

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----- Original Message ----

smartmontools isn't the appropriate program

you need to use a program called idacontrol

get it from ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/idacontrol.tar

More on PR i386/70482

Use smartmontools on ATA disks.  Your 360 uses SCSI disks
on a proprietary controller which doesen't support the interface
needed to run it.
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Thank you Ted, idacontrol works fine and returns some usefull information about the attached disk drives. 

I also found this suggestion interesting: 

#define IDA_QCB_MAX = 128 instead of 256

in sys/dev/ida/idavar.h
 


because one of my DL360's resets itself about once a month with a very similar error as mentioned in thread
 
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2005-September/002034.html

ida0: soft error
ida_command: out of QCBsida0: ida_timeout() qactive 256
ida0: IDA_INTERRUPTS
ida0:   R_CMD_FIFO: 00000000
         R_DONE_FIFO: 00000000
         R_INT_MASK: 00000000
         R_STATUS: 00000000
         R_INT_PENDING: 00000000Nick






       
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