smartmontools on Compaq smart array fails

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Nick Jagger
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 3:19 PM
> To: Ted Mittelstaedt; freebsd-questions at 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