Re: [smartmontools-devel] Experimental Areca Support

Dear Smartmontools Users,

There was a small mistake in what I wrote below: smartd DOES have support 
for Areca!

(Thanks to Oliver Bock both for the code and for the correction.)

Cheers,
 	Bruce

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Bruce Allen wrote:

> Dear Smartmontools Users,
>
> I'd like to announce that smartmontools now has some experimental code to
> support smartctl on Areca SATA RAID controllers (Linux only). Thanks to
> Hank Wu (Areca) and Oliver Bock (AEI Hannover) for their contributions. I
> have tested this on ARC 1261 controllers, and am starting to use this on
> production systems in the next days.
>
> The code must be built from the current smartmontools CVS archive.
>
> Note: smartd does not yet support Areca, but this should be coming soon.
>
> PLEASE BE CAUTIOUS: USE THIS CODE ON CRITICAL OR PRODUCTION SYSTEMS ONLY
> AFTER YOU HAVE DONE 'DUE DILIGENCE' TESTING YOURSELF.
>
> Please report success or failure to the Smartmontools Mailing List
> <smartmontools-support <at> lists.sourceforge.net>.
>
> Note that the interface to the device is not through the read/write disk
> device like /dev/sda, but instead via the SCSI generic device interface. A
> typical invokation is:
>
>    ./smartctl -a -d areca,1 /dev/sg2
>
> If one of the Areca command-line tools (for example cli64) is running and
> accessing the device, then smartctl will exit with a polite error message
> saying that the controller is currently being accesssed by another
> program.
>
> The Areca controller must have firmware version 1.46 or later. Earlier
> versions will not return SMART information but will instead produce
> (harmless) SCSI error messages.
>
> Cheers,
>      Bruce
>
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