Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 16:21:00 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net> To: Freddie Cash <fcash@ocis.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd? Message-ID: <Pine.OSX.4.64.0702081616230.28160@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> In-Reply-To: <200702081031.39615.fcash@ocis.net> References: <00ad01c74b65$79db1710$0c00a8c0@Artem> <00a701c74b6e$7c3e4550$fe03a8c0@claylaptop> <20070208165224.GA35610@icarus.home.lan> <200702081031.39615.fcash@ocis.net>
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On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Freddie Cash wrote: > On Thursday 08 February 2007 08:52 am, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 12:47:10PM +0200, Clayton Milos wrote: >>> I can highly recommend the Areca family of SATA-II controllers. I >>> have a ARC-1110 (4 poort RAID controller) with 4x 320GB Western >>> Digital SATA-II drives attached to it in a RAID5 configuration. > > The following is from my experience with 3Ware Escalade RAID controllers > (7506-4LP, 9500S-8, 9550SX-8. 9550SX-12 single and multi-lane). > >> I have questions: >> 1) Do these controllers, from a BIOS level, permit SMART commands >> to be sent directly to the drives (via pass(4)) so you can >> monitor drives for potential upcoming failures and perform >> drive tests, via smartctl? > > Don't know, never checked. Yes: [root@archive /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools]# smartctl -a -d 3ware,0 /dev/twa0 smartctl version 5.37 [i386-portbld-freebsd6.2] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce AllenHome page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 family Device Model: ST3250824AS Serial Number: 3ND Firmware Version: 3.AAD User Capacity: 250,059,350,016 bytes Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 7 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is: Thu Feb 8 16:19:53 2007 EST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity was completed without error. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: ( 430) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. No Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 100) minutes. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 119 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 098 098 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 25 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 071 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 12913362 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 097 097 000 Old_age Always - 3110 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 40 187 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 189 Unknown_Attribute 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 190 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 065 055 045 Old_age Always - 622329891 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 035 045 000 Old_age Always - 35 (Lifetime Min/Max 0/23) 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 057 051 000 Old_age Always - 86235674 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 202 TA_Increase_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 2 - # 2 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 1 - SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. Charles
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