Re: Test done on disks behind a HBA.

What kind of disks are each of these? Same model? Different? SAS? SATA?

Are the disks directly attached to the LSI HBA?

What's smartctl -i give you?

- Rich



On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 5:28 AM, alessandro macuz
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have disks directly connected to the motherboard and in an enclosure.
>
> I have plenty of disks but SDA is representative for those attached directly
> and SDJ is representative for those behind the LSI HBA 9205, in the
> encliosure.
>
> I want to monitor the status of the hard disks and I wonder if for the disks
> like sdj the returned status OK has the same meaning of PASSED.
>
> root@server:/tmp/tmp# smartctl -H /dev/sdj
> smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [x86_64-linux-3.2.0-53-generic] (local build)
> Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
>
> SMART Health Status: OK
> root@server:/tmp/tmp# smartctl -H /dev/sda
> smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [x86_64-linux-3.2.0-53-generic] (local build)
> Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
>
> === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
> SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
>
>
> What is the difference in the test run, if any, on the two disks?
>
> I need to write a script that checks the disk every 4 hours for a NAS and I
> must know if the disks like sdj are correctly monitored. I tried to use the
> switch -d sat on it but I get the following error
>
> root@server:/tmp/tmp# smartctl -d sat -H /dev/sdj
> smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [x86_64-linux-3.2.0-53-generic] (local build)
> Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
>
> Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed: scsi error unsupported scsi opcode
>
> A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T
> permissive' options.
>
> Adding "-T permissive" doesn't help much.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alex
>
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