On 9/28/2011 2:32 PM, Per Jessen wrote:
Brian K. White wrote:
On 9/28/2011 5:57 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
I'm not sure if the SMART test is meant to be fully working, but it certainly doesn't work with 3ware controllers. Let me know if anyone would like me to open a bugreport. (I'm not overly keen on this functionality myself, but others might find it very useful).
I'm not sure what you mean but I definitely need "smartctl [...] -d 3ware,# /dev/tw[elo]#" things to work.
Yep, I'm sure YaST does too.
None of this involved yast if you're talking about a yast module.
At installation time, the partitioner has an option called "SMART health-check".
On that box I was talking about, the discovery that out of the box I couldn't even query or set ERC, and the discovery that my 12 x $100 Seagate Momentus XT hybrid ssd/7200rpm drives all actually lack the ERC function and so there is essentially no way to prevent the raid card from kicking drives out of the array randomly, yet mdraid could be made to handle the problem a couple different ways without blowing the array for no reason... is just one more reason I kick myself for letting a hardware vendor talk me into a raid card even when I know I know what I want since years now... Grr hardware raid == grrr!!!! Not to mention, all 12 of those drive had a firmware update. I had to actually be physically present with the server, boot up a freedos usb thumb drive, and one at a time move the drives from the backplane to a plain sata port because the firmware flasher is just a dos app, and freedos doesn't have any fancy latest-model-3ware driver that can access the physical drives unless maybe by destroying the array and setting up 12 plain volumes instead.. ugh. Sorry for the totally off topic rage against hardware raid cards... -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org