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Date:      Sun, 28 Aug 2016 10:56:56 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 212211] mrsas (4) does not allow smartctl to access S.M.A.R.T data from physical drive hidden under /dev/daX
Message-ID:  <bug-212211-6@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>

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            Bug ID: 212211
           Summary: mrsas (4) does not allow smartctl to access S.M.A.R.T
                    data from physical drive hidden under /dev/daX
           Product: Base System
           Version: 10.3-STABLE
          Hardware: amd64
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: kern
          Assignee: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: stesin@gmail.com
                CC: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org
                CC: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org

Given FreeBSD 10.3 system with LSI MegaRAID 9271-8i SATA/SAS RAID controlle=
r.

Recommended (and supported) driver for this newer controller is mrsas (4).
mrsas (4) provides OS with virtual drives /dev/daXX - although I found that
/dev/passX devices are also created for whatever purpose (/dev/daN has
corresponding /dev/passN) in case it matters.

Each /dev/daXX hides some (1 or more) physical SAS/SATA drives hidden under=
 it.
Using MegaCLI utility, you can list PDs which of these are located by:

- either with a pair of values [EnclosureID:SlotID],
- or with the "device ID" which LSI MegaRAID somehow assigns to them.

I have fresh actual smartmontools installed:

smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE amd64] (local build)

I want to get S.M.A.R.T. status of any physical drive attached to MegaRAID,
i.e. of an SSD which MegaRAID assigned device ID is 12, and it is hidden un=
der
/dev/da0 virtual drive. But what I actually get:

[root@chort /]# smartctl -a /dev/da0
smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
START OF INFORMATION SECTION
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D
Vendor: LSI
Product: MR9271-8i
Revision: 3.46
User Capacity: 199,481,098,240 bytes [199 GB]
Logical block size: 512 bytes
Terminate command early due to bad response to IEC mode page
A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T
permissive' options.
[root@chort /]#=20

Ok, I understand: /dev/da0 is not a physical drive, maybe it's a striped ar=
ray
of 2 drives, smartctl gets confused, this is expected behavior.

Looking deeper, I discovered, that Linux version of smartctl is aware of th=
is
situation, it allows the following syntax, where "-d megaraid,12" should te=
ll
that we are dealing with LSI MegaRAID and we actually want to question the =
disk
with "device ID" 12. Tried with Ubuntu live CD, it actually works well.

But on FreeBSD this mode is not supported:

[root@chort /]# smartctl -a -d megaraid,12 /dev/da0
smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
/dev/da0: Unknown device type 'megaraid,12'
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D> VALID ARGUMENTS ARE: ata, scsi, nvme[,NSID], sat[,au=
to][,N][+TYPE],
usbcypress[,X], usbjmicron[,p][,x][,N], usbprolific, usbsunplus, 3ware,N,
hpt,L/M/N, cciss,N, areca,N/E, atacam, auto, test <=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary
[root@chort /]#

I already opened the ticket at https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/734 but=
 I
think that a clarification is needed here: does mrsas (4) support this kind=
 of
queries at all, as of today?

Do we need some modifications to mrsas (4) in order to support the syntax l=
ike:

smartctl -a -d megaraid,12

or even better,

smartctl -a -d 'megaraid,[9:11'

or both? Or this is completely on the side of smartmontools? Thanks in adva=
nce!

WBR,
Andrii Stesin

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