From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 9 00:33:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80FFD16A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 00:33:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gen129.n001.c02.escapebox.net (gen129.n001.c02.escapebox.net [213.73.91.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2037A43D58 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 00:33:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gemini@geminix.org) Message-ID: <407651D1.3080706@geminix.org> Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 09:33:37 +0200 From: Uwe Doering Organization: Private UNIX Site User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040119 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20040408085758.GA27845@kollerie.com> In-Reply-To: <20040408085758.GA27845@kollerie.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from gemini by geminix.org with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1BBqWB-000OLu-00; Fri, 09 Apr 2004 09:33:39 +0200 Subject: Re: enabling S.M.A.R.T on drives attached to Adaptec 2400A RAID controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 07:33:40 -0000 Guido Kollerie wrote: > In my server I have four 40GB IBM Deskstar 120GXP drives attached > to an Adaptec 2400A RAID controller in a RAID-5 configuration > with one of the drives configured as a hot spare. > > According to Adaptec's raidutil utility the four drives do not > have the S.M.A.R.T. capability for detecting potential problems. > However according to the IBM/Hitachi datasheet for these drive > they _do_ have this capability: > > http://ssddom01.hgst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/E0B26749E1A7728C87256B290055ECA5/$file/D120GXP_ds.PDF > > Is there a way to convince the 2400A that these drives do support > S.M.A.R.T, and if so how do I enable it? In my experience the fact that 'raidutil -L all' doesn't flag the S.M.A.R.T capability is not really relevant. I've seen 2400A controllers in the past that didn't flag that capability, either, and still disk drives (IBM) failed because of excessive S.M.A.R.T errors, according to the controller's event log. I have no idea, though, how to check in advance whether S.M.A.R.T is enabled by default in a specific disk drive. However, there is a check box for S.M.A.R.T in the controller's BIOS setup (if I remember correctly), and it was selected by default in all cases I've seen. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers gemini@geminix.org | http://www.escapebox.net