I'm seeing something odd and don't know if its a function of the new ada/ahci driver support in smartmontools 5.38 and later.
I'm running 5.39.1 on an array using SiL3124 controllers with port multipliers. # smartctl -i /dev/ada9 smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 family Device Model: ST31500341AS Serial Number: 9VS40ZGX Firmware Version: CC1H User Capacity: 1,500,301,910,016 bytes Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 4 Local Time is: Tue Sep 28 19:22:19 2010 EDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled # smartctl -i /dev/ada10 smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 family Device Model: ST31500341AS Serial Number: 9VS2JN79 Firmware Version: CC1H User Capacity: 1,500,301,910,016 bytes Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 4 Local Time is: Tue Sep 28 19:22:34 2010 EDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled # smartctl -i /dev/ada11 smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net /dev/ada11: Unable to detect device type Smartctl: please specify device type with the -d option. Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary --- .... since all the drives, cables and controllers are identical, I'm trying to figure out if there is something *else* I should be looking into for why smart would have an issue, but the rest of the OS has no issues with these drives. (zfs is storing data, reports them all as online, etc). I looked into the smartctl code, and there definitely is a carve out for FreeBSD 8.1 or later, but I don't know enough about the new internals to know if the is any kind of concern parsing more than 10 drives, etc. Thanks in advance! DJ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
