enabling S.M.A.R.T on drives attached to Adaptec 2400A RAID controller

[Guido Kollerie]

In my server I have four 40GB IBM Deskstar 120GXP drives attached
to an Adaptec 2400A RAID controller in a RAID-5 configuration
with one of the drives configured as a hot spare.

According to Adaptec's raidutil utility the four drives do not
have the S.M.A.R.T. capability for detecting potential problems.
However according to the IBM/Hitachi datasheet for these drive
they _do_ have this capability:

    http://ssddom01.hgst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/E0B26749E1A7728C87256B290055ECA5/$file/D120GXP_ds.PDF

Is there a way to convince the 2400A that these drives do support
S.M.A.R.T, and if so how do I enable it?

I am running FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p3. The output of:

    /usr/local/dpt/raidutil -L all

is included below.

Thanks, Guido


RAIDUTIL  Version: 3.04  Date: 9/27/2000  FreeBSD CLI Configuration Utility
Adaptec ENGINE  Version: 3.04  Date: 9/27/2000  Adaptec FreeBSD SCSI Engine

#  b0 b1 b2  Controller     Cache  FW    NVRAM     Serial     Status
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
d0 -- -- --  ADAP2400A      16MB   370F  ADPT 1.0  BB0F21800BTOptimal

Physical View
Address    Type              Manufacturer/Model         Capacity  Status
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
d0b0t0d0   Disk Drive (DASD) IC35L040 AVVA07-0          39266MB   Optimal
d0b1t0d0   Disk Drive (DASD) IC35L040 AVVA07-0          39266MB   Optimal
d0b2t0d0   Disk Drive (DASD) IC35L040 AVVA07-0          39266MB   Optimal
d0b3t0d0   Disk Drive (DASD) IC35L040 AVVA07-0          39266MB   Optimal

Logical View
Address       Type              Manufacturer/Model      Capacity  Status
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
d0b0t0d0      RAID 5 (Redundant ADAPTEC  RAID-5         78532MB   Optimal
 d0b0t0d0     Disk Drive (DASD) IC35L040 AVVA07-0       39266MB   Optimal
 d0b1t0d0     Disk Drive (DASD) IC35L040 AVVA07-0       39266MB   Optimal
 d0b2t0d0     Disk Drive (DASD) IC35L040 AVVA07-0       39266MB   Optimal
 +d0b3t0d0    Disk Drive (DASD) ADAPTEC  HOT SPARE      39266MB   Optimal

Address    Capacity  
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
d0b3t0d0   39266MB   Hot Spare

Address    Max Speed  Actual Rate / Width
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
d0b0t0d0   50 MHz     100 MB/sec    wide
d0b1t0d0   50 MHz     100 MB/sec    wide
d0b2t0d0   50 MHz     100 MB/sec    wide
d0b3t0d0   10 MHz     100 MB/sec    wide

Address    Manufacturer/Model        Write Cache Mode (HBA/Device)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
d0b0t0d0   ADAPTEC  RAID-5           Write Back / --
 d0b0t0d0  IC35L040 AVVA07-0         -- / Write Back
 d0b1t0d0  IC35L040 AVVA07-0         -- / Write Back
 d0b2t0d0  IC35L040 AVVA07-0         -- / Write Back
d0b3t0d0   39266MB  Hot Spare        

#  Controller     Cache  FW    NVRAM     BIOS   SMOR      Serial
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
d0 ADAP2400A      16MB   370F  ADPT 1.0  1.3W   1.12/52I  BB0F21800BT

#  Controller      Status     Voltage  Current  Full Cap  Rem Cap  Rem Time
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
d0 ADAP2400A       No battery 

Address    Manufacturer/Model        FW          Serial        123456789012
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
d0b0t0d0   IC35L040 AVVA07-0         VA2O       VNC202A2LG5GXA -X-XX--X-O--
d0b1t0d0   IC35L040 AVVA07-0         VA2O       VNC202A2LGMK4A -X-XX--X-O--
d0b2t0d0   IC35L040 AVVA07-0         VA2O       VNC202A2LD8MZA -X-XX--X-O--
d0b3t0d0   IC35L040 AVVA07-0         VA2O       VNC210A2G5UATB -X-XX--X-O--

Capabilities Map:  Column 1 = Soft Reset
                   Column 2 = Cmd Queuing
                   Column 3 = Linked Cmds
                   Column 4 = Synchronous
                   Column 5 = Wide 16
                   Column 6 = Wide 32
                   Column 7 = Relative Addr
                   Column 8 = SCSI II
                   Column 9 = S.M.A.R.T.
                   Column 0 = SCAM
                   Column 1 = SCSI-3
                   Column 2 = SAF-TE
   X = Capability Exists, - = Capability does not exist, O = Not Supported


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