How to use smartctl commands for lsi megaraid controllers. However, please that most of old distributions wont have this driver. Using smartctl to get smart status information on your. Nov 22, 2018 first use lspci to determine the type of raid controller. Smart is an acronym for selfmonitoring, analysis and reporting technology.
How to check disk health using smartmontools on linux. Raid cmdtool2 for dos, freebsd, linux, solaris, and windows this utility is a command line utility version 8. Jul 11, 2017 smartctl monitoring and analysis tool for hard drive. Microchip provides the driver smartpqi for linux for the adaptec smartraid 3100 controller series. The utilities support the intel matrix storage manager metadata format. To use the raid features in dmraid and mdadm, set up the raid volume using the intel matrix storage manager option. For disks accessed via the cciss driver the device. This package also provides the smartd daemon which periodically polls the drives to obtain smart information.
This tutorial, like most linux tutorials, is a tease. Im assuming this is a perc controller in a dell poweredge server. Jun 25, 2011 ive centos linux and freebsd based server running using 3ware 9650se2lp raid card. Raidcontroller, linux, freebsd, netbsd, openbsd, macos, solaris, windows. Using smartctl to get smart status information on your hard. Darwin mac os x but with no scsi support yet, freebsd, linux, netbsd, openbsd, os2 no scsi support, solaris and windows. Using smartctl to monitor the adaptec 2405 raid controller. Linux use smartctl to check disk behind adaptec raid controllers last updated july 11, 2018 in categories centos, debian ubuntu, linux, redhat and friends, storage, suse i can use the smartctl d ata a devsdb command to read hard disk health status directly connected to my system. The esxi megaraid driver is different from the linux driver which is currently supported by smartmontools. Adaptec smartraid smartpqi linux driver thomaskrennwiki.
Under linux and freebsd, to look at ata disks behind 3ware scsi raid controllers, use syntax such as. So, if your usb bridge isnt one of the ones it knows about and doesnt use exactly the same vendorspecific commands, smartctl just cant read the data. I want to use smartd part of smartmontools to monitor the health of the drives and report errors to syslog which i monitor using logcheck. Besides the difference in raid configuration the controllers are not the same. Jul 11, 2018 i can use the smartctl d ata a devsdb command to read hard disk health status directly connected to my system. One or more hard drives or ssds can hide behind each raid volume. If no info could be provided, this ticket will be resolved as wontfix again.
How to use smartctl with cciss my guess would be that the raid controller has abstracted the individual disks, so it doesnt matter which logical disk you try to get from the controller, it sees the count the same. To look at ata disks behind 3ware scsi raid controllers, use syntax such as. The nonnegative integer n in the range from 0 to 15 inclusive denotes which disk on. I feel like ive been seeing a lot more threads on the linuxraid mailing list recently where peoples arrays have broken, they need help putting them back together because they arent familiar with what to do in that situation, and it turns out that theres nothing much wrong with the devices in question other than device timeouts. For hp smart array raid controllers, there are three currently supported drivers.
If you are not in such a configuration, or more drives have failed than your systems fault tolerance level, youre back to replace all the drives and restore from backup. We will go through rescanning for a newly added disk, monitoring its performance and monitoring the disk health. So if you use freebsd behind a cciss hp smartarray raid controller, be extra careful and dont trust the cciss numbering. It seems that linux see only hardware raid marvell raid vd and smartctl do not have support for it. It is suggested to use the controller in ahci mode, use software raid instead and forget about the hp maintenance tools.
After the smart array device driver hpsa was upgraded to version 3. How to use smartctl with cciss hewlett packard enterprise. How to check smartctl error for megaraid controller linux. Fortunately, some readers passed on some good information on what raid 10 is, and what sets linux s implentation apart. The raid controller adaptec aac raid presents a virtual disk to the os using an array of physical disks. How to use smartctl with cciss my guess would be that the raid controller has abstracted the individual disks, so it doesnt matter which logical disk you. It works fine and i am able to boot after disconnecting any single hdd. Mar 11, 2008 you can run more extensive tests and get even better warnings of impending troubles. Smartmontools is available for the these operating systems. I can use the smartctl d ata a devsdb command to read hard disk health status directly connected to my system. I know how to check hard disk behind adaptec raid controllers, but how do i look at ata sata disks behind 3ware scsi raid controllers using smartctl command. Disk drive numbering is 0 based smartctl a d cciss,1 devsg2 hpsa or hpahcisr drivers under linux. In this article you can find information about which driver version is included in the recent linux kernel versions and which newer drivers microchip provides for download. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features.
Control and monitor utility for smart disks linux man. But, how do i read smartctl command to check sas or scsi disk behind adaptec raid controller from the shell prompt on linux operating. How to monitor harddisk health with smartmontools on ubuntu. You can find the serial number of the disk in the smartctl output and match it against the physical drive. Main page server hardware raid controllers lsi main page server software linux linuxstorage. After some replacement tests, it seems that freebsd is seeing the disk the other way. We added experimental support for disks behind intel matrix raid driver on windows. This of course presumes raid 1, raid 5, raid 6, or some other configuration that lets you replace a single failed drive and that you only have a single failed drive. Raid volumes in this example are marked by the string vendor. This software raid solution has been used primarily on mobile, desktop, and workstation platforms and, to a limited extent, on server platforms.
Dgvd type state access consist cache scc size name. It can be used to check hard disk, sas disk, ssd and also check disk on raid conroller such as hp smart array controller, lsi megaraid dell. But, how do i read smartctl command to check sas or scsi disk behind adaptec raid controller from the shell prompt on linux operating system. Aug 08, 2014 raid volumes in this example are marked by the string vendor. Dec 08, 2017 use the nodes corresponding to the raid controllers, not the nodes corresponding to logical drives. More info documentation, sample source code, reverse engineering result. Im trying to get the disk serial number of disks attached to the centos server.
One of the three drives is a hot spare and the other two are active in the raid sets. All linux distributions provide the smartmontools package, which contain the smartctl program used to display smart information from attached drives. Gsmartcontrol is a graphical user interface for smartctl from smartmontools package, which is a tool for querying and controlling smart selfmonitoring, analysis, and reporting technology data on modern hard disk and solidstate drives. Linux software raid and drive timeouts the ongoing struggle. The recommended software raid implementation in linux is the open source md raid package. When there was no raid0 under lsi, i can get the serial number and model of devsdb by. There is sufficient information to confirm that i want to use smartmontools but not enough information to help me understand what i want to do, why i want to do it and especially how to go about it. How to monitor the hard disk status behind dell perc h710 raid. There are many things i dont understand about linux. Using smartctl and fio to analyze disk health and performance.
Please report your test results to the smartmontools support. Smartctl monitoring and analysis tool for hard drive. Intel has enhanced md raid to support rst metadata and orom and it is validated and supported by intel for server. Linux use smartctl to check disk behind adaptec raid controllers. With this particular controller you can use smartctl to check the sas or scsi disks behind the adaptec control. Linux use smartctl to check disk behind adaptec raid.
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