Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 9 Jul 2004 17:25:19 -0500 (CDT) | | From | Bruce Allen <> | | Subject | RE: 3ware 9500S Drivers (mm kernel) |
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Peter, Jurgen, Claudio,
> > I am also working with Bruce Allen (smartmontools developer) to make > > the 3w-9xxx driver work with smartmontools. This shouldn't require > > any driver changes. > > This should happen on the timescale of two weeks. I've got a 9500 series > controller on hand and some SATA disks on order. Once the disks arrive, > with Adam's help it shouldn't take me long to get smartmontools working on > the 9500 series controllers. > > The most novel aspect is that this will use the driver's character device > interface rather than the block interface.
I've now checked code into CVS for this, so smartmontools now can be used with 3ware/AMCC 9000 series controllers (3w-9xxx driver). Many thanks to Adam Radford for his help with this.
I'd be grateful if you could give it a try and report back. I'm especially interested in reports about 64-bit or big-endian (or both) hardware.
You'll need to follow the instructions at http://smartmontools.sf.net/ to check a copy out of CVS and build it. You'll have to use the 'character device' syntax to address the disks, for example:
./smartctl -a -d 3ware,0 /dev/twa0 ./smartctl -a -d 3ware,1 /dev/twa0 ./smartctl -a -d 3ware,2 /dev/twa0
for the first three disks on the first controller, and
./smartctl -a -d 3ware,0 /dev/twa1 ./smartctl -a -d 3ware,1 /dev/twa1
for the first two disks on the second controller. Likewise use /dev/twa? in /etc/smartd.conf.
If you don't have the /dev/twa? devices on your system, please run the tw_cli or 3dmd tools once: this will automatically create the /dev/twa? nodes.
I've also added support for 6000/7000/8000 cards to use the character device interface /dev/twe?. These devices can ALSO use the SCSI interface via /dev/sd?
Cheers, Bruce
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