Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 03:08:00 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Nick Jagger" <nckjagger@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: smartmontools on Compaq smart array fails Message-ID: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCIEBECAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <120655.64916.qm@web57505.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Nick Jagger > Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 3:19 PM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: smartmontools on Compaq smart array fails > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > smartmontools isn't the appropriate program > > you need to use a program called idacontrol > > get it from ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/idacontrol.tar > > More on PR i386/70482 > > Use smartmontools on ATA disks. Your 360 uses SCSI disks > on a proprietary controller which doesen't support the interface > needed to run it. > ------------------------------- > > Thank you Ted, idacontrol works fine and returns some usefull > information about the attached disk drives. > > I also found this suggestion interesting: > > #define IDA_QCB_MAX = 128 instead of 256 > > in sys/dev/ida/idavar.h > > > > because one of my DL360's resets itself about once a month with a > very similar error as mentioned in thread > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2005-September/002034.html > > ida0: soft error > ida_command: out of QCBsida0: ida_timeout() qactive 256 > ida0: IDA_INTERRUPTS > ida0: R_CMD_FIFO: 00000000 > R_DONE_FIFO: 00000000 > R_INT_MASK: 00000000 > R_STATUS: 00000000 > R_INT_PENDING: 00000000Nick > You have one of those that does that too, eh? So do we. I think it is because it's using non-Compaq disk drives, and there is a firmware bug in the drive. Ted
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