[email protected] wrote: > Hi List, > > I've been reading about the smartctl problems people have been having. I > couldn't see my controller listed in any of the threads. OS is RHEL5.4 > smartmontools is smartmontools-5.38-2.el5 >
Safe as far as I know, but if you have a test system which you can hammer using smartctl whilst under I/O load for a few hours, I'd recommend doing that first. I'd be interested to see the results, and have been meaning to do this myself. To be on the safe side, perhaps you'd want to review the controler and disk firmware changelogs (from the Dell firmware update packages) too to see if there have been any passthrough, or SMART related bug fixes since the versions that you have installed (assuming they aren't the latest) - however the risk of a manual one-off run of smartctl is likely to be far lower than that of running smartd continuously... Whilst I'm at it DELL: PLEASE can you include the full release history in your changelogs, not just the changes since the last release - chasing through 10 package releases to piece together all the changes from an oldish release is just PAINFUL. Other vendors (e.g. Intel) include the full history, and it makes my life a LOT easier. Cheers, Tim. -- South East Open Source Solutions Limited Registered in England and Wales with company number 06134732. Registered Office: 2 Powell Gardens, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 1TQ VAT number: 900 6633 53 http://seoss.co.uk/ +44-(0)1273-808309 _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
