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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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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