Re: smartd fails to monitor disks connected to an ASUS PIKE 2008 card

Hi Christian,

>> I have 3 disks connected to an ASUS PIKE 2008 controller that I would
>> like to
>> monitor with smartd. The PIKE card works only as a SATA controller and
>> passes
>> the disks straight through (i.e., no RAID is set up). If I try to look
>> at one of
>> those disks with smartctl, I get perfectly normal looking output, e.g.:
>>
>> # smartctl -a /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST31000528AS_6VP0PCXC
>> smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-3.9.7-1-desktop] (SUSE RPM)
>> Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke,
>> www.smartmontools.org
>>
>> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
>> Model Family:     Seagate Barracuda 7200.12
>> Device Model:     ST31000528AS
>> .... etc ....
>>
>> when I try to include this disk in /etc/smartd.conf, the daemon fails
>> to start
>> with error 16, and I get the error message:
>>
>> /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST31000528AS_6VP0PCXC, not ATA, no IDENTIFY
>> DEVICE
>> Structure
>>
>> This is confusing to me since smartctl clearly identifies the disk as
>> ATA, so I
>> wonder if this is a bug in smartd? Is there a workaround to start
>> monitoring
>> these 3 disks?
>
> Please provide the smartd.conf file.

Here it is... The three commented-out lines are the disks that are 
connected to the PIKE card. If I uncomment one of those, smartd 
immediately exits with error 16.

/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HD204UI_S2HGJDWZ804967 -I 194 -d ata 
-a -o on -S on -s (S/../.././11|L/../(09|23)/./18) -m root
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HD204UI_S2HGJDWZ804973 -I 194 -d ata 
-a -o on -S on -s (S/../.././12|L/../(02|16)/./18) -m root
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HD204UI_S2H7JD1Z900189 -I 194 -d ata 
-a -o on -S on -s (S/../.././13|L/../(04|18)/./18) -m root
#/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST31000528AS_6VP0PCXC -I 190 -I 194 -d ata -a 
-o on -S on -s (S/../.././14|L/../(06|20)/./18) -m root
#/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST1000DM005_HD10S246JX0D300179 -I 194 -d ata 
-a -o on -S on -s (S/../.././15|L/../(12|26)/./18) -m root
#/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SanDisk_SDSSDX24130863401886 -I 194 -I 195 -d 
ata -a -o on -S on -s (S/../.././02|L/../(03|17)/./08) -m root
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3400620NS_9QH06Q20 -I 190 -I 194 -I 195 -d 
ata -a -o on -S on -s (S/../.././05|L/../(01|15)/./12) -m root


Cheers,

Peter.

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