I am trying to get smart monitoring to work in Solaris 64-bit with smartmontools version 5.36 [i386-pc-solaris2.8]
I have some of my HDDS connected thru LSI3081E-R with LSI1068E SATA chip (c0*) and some thru MBs ICH10R controller SATA ports (c2*). With smartctl I get these results. # smartctl -i /dev/rdsk/c2t1d0s0 smartctl version 5.36 [i386-pc-solaris2.8] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Smartctl: please specify device type with the -d option. Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # smartctl -d ata -i /dev/rdsk/c2t1d0s0 smartctl version 5.36 [i386-pc-solaris2.8] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ ####################################################################### ATA command routine ata_command_interface() NOT IMPLEMENTED under Solaris. Please contact smartmontools-support at lists.sourceforge.net if you want to help in porting smartmontools to Solaris. ####################################################################### Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device) A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # smartctl -i /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 smartctl version 5.36 [i386-pc-solaris2.8] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Device: ATA WDC WD1001FALS-0 Version: 0K05 Serial number: WD-WMATV0****** Device type: disk Local Time is: Sat Dec 6 02:24:18 2008 EET Device supports SMART and is Enabled Temperature Warning Disabled or Not Supported Is this a driver thing or is the problem in the smartmontools? Why doesn't smartmontools detect the ICH10R drives as (s)ata? I gather that smartmon detects the SATA card drives better because it gives also the serial numbers. So can I somebody explain what's going on here... Also if the Blog O' Matty's author is in this forum, could you also elaborate a little how have you gotten smartmontools to work on a SATA drive as you state on your blog http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2006/01/05/using-smartd-on-solaris-systems-to-find-disk-drive-problems/ -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
