Package: cciss-vol-status Version: 1.09-2 Severity: wishlist HP raid cards can have flash-backed write caches installed. In Gen8 blades these are now hard wired to the cards.
The HP binary tool reports their health, cciss_vol_status doesnt. It would be great if this could be added. The smartctl tool can be used to see that an fbwc is installed like this... --- [[email protected] ~]# smartctl -a -d cciss,2 /dev/sda smartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [x86_64-linux-2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net Vendor: PMCSIERA Product: SRCv4x6G Revision: RevB >> Terminate command early due to bad response to IEC mode page A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options. --- In the hpsa driver source there are some mentions of the cache, so im not sure if it would be trivial to add it or not? -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages cciss-vol-status depends on: ii libc6 2.13-34 cciss-vol-status recommends no packages. cciss-vol-status suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
