From b0aa12d0e4ea3e48803efce6638af3a82f65c329 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: chrfranke <chrfranke@4ea69e1a-61f1-4043-bf83-b5c94c648137> Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 20:04:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Updated info about RAID support git-svn-id: https://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/smartmontools/trunk@2320 4ea69e1a-61f1-4043-bf83-b5c94c648137 --- www/index.html | 89 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------- 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-) diff --git a/www/index.html b/www/index.html index c041dfc35..2489a3deb 100644 --- a/www/index.html +++ b/www/index.html @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head> - <title>smartmontools Home Page (last updated $Date: 2006/09/01 17:12:49 $)</title> + <title>smartmontools Home Page (last updated $Date: 2006/11/04 20:04:26 $)</title> <link rev="made" href="mailto:smartmontools-support@sourceforge.net" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> <meta name="description" content="smartmontools Home Page" /> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ </head> <body> -<!-- $Id: index.html,v 1.207 2006/09/01 17:12:49 guidog Exp $ --> +<!-- $Id: index.html,v 1.208 2006/11/04 20:04:26 chrfranke Exp $ --> <div align="center"> <img src="smart_logo.gif" border="0" width="105" height="59" alt="SMART LOGO" /> @@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ CHANGELOG</a> for details. notes <a href="#CVSInstall">below</a> if you install smartmontools from CVS.</font></li> <li><font color="#ff0000">A Windows installer version of smartmontools 5.36 was released 2006-06-06, see <a href="#WindowsInstall">below</a>.</font></li> +<li><font color="#ff0000">New RAID controller support (CCISS and HighPoint on Linux, +3ware on Windows) was added, see <a href="#FAQ-RAID">below</a>.</font></li> </ul> <font color="#ff0000"> Please report problems (or success!) with the new release to the @@ -84,7 +86,8 @@ Project Page</a></li> <li>Mailing List <a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/smartmontools-support">Information</a> and <a href="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=smartmontools-support">Archives</a> (Archive has <b>Search Box</b> in top left corner). <a href="#altmail">Alternative</a> (and usually up to date) archives.</li> -<li>Current <a href="man/smartctl.8.html">smartctl</a>, <a href="man/smartd.8.html">smartd</a>, and <a href="man/smartd.conf.5.html">smartd.conf</a> HTML man pages generated from CVS.</li> +<li><a name="man"></a> +Current <a href="man/smartctl.8.html">smartctl</a>, <a href="man/smartd.8.html">smartd</a>, and <a href="man/smartd.conf.5.html">smartd.conf</a> HTML man pages generated from CVS.</li> </ul> <hr size="2" /> @@ -303,7 +306,7 @@ mailing list</a>. <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=64297">here</a>. </p></li> <li><p>More recent (and probably unstable) Windows test releases build from CVS -snapshots are available <a href="http://franke.dvrdns.org/smartmontools/">here</a>. +snapshots are available <a href="http://smartmontools-win32.dyndns.org/smartmontools/">here</a>. </p></li> </ul> @@ -669,54 +672,48 @@ list. </p> </li> -<li><b>Can I monitor ATA disks behind SCSI RAID controllers?</b> +<li><a name="FAQ-RAID"></a><b>Can I monitor disks behind RAID controllers?</b> <p> -From release 5.1-18, smartmontools fully supports 3ware SCSI RAID -controllers that use ATA disks internally. To pass commands through -the 3ware controller, use the smartmontools <b>-d 3ware,N</b> option -or Directive. -</p> -<p> -3ware Linux device drivers (<tt>3w-xxxx</tt>) versions <b>1.02.00.036</b> -and earlier do not return the SMART HEALTH STATUS (smartmontools -<b>-H</b>) of the disks. In addition, the ENABLE AUTOMATIC OFFLINE and -ENABLE ATTRIBUTE AUTOSAVE commands (smartmontools <b>-o on</b> and -<b>-S on</b>) can not be passed through the driver to the disks. -Later driver versions support <i>all</i> of these commands. You may: +RAID controllers typically simulate a (logical) disk for each array of +(physical) disks to the OS. +Access to SMART functionality relies on ATA or SCSI pass through I/O controls +providing direct access to each physical disk. +But the standard I/O controls available are usually not designed to make this +distinction between logical and physical disks. +Therefore, smartmontools has to use vendor specific I/O controls. +Support for disks behind RAID controllers is highly dependent on both platform +and controller type. </p> <ul> -<li>use version <b>1.02.00.037</b> or greater of the <tt>3w-xxxx</tt> driver, or</li> -<li><a href="3w-xxxx.txt">patch</a> earlier 3ware <tt>3w-xxxx</tt> drivers so that -these commands reach the disks, or</li> -<li> use an <b>unpatched</b> earlier <tt>3w-xxxx</tt> driver (which won't pass these -commands to the disks but will instead print -harmless warning messages to SYSLOG).</li> +<li><p> +3ware RAID controllers are supported on Linux since smartmontools release 5.1-18. +Support for char devices /dev/tw* was added in release 5.33. +</p></li> +<li><p> +3ware support on FreeBSD is available since release 5.33, multiple controller and +char device support was added in release 5.36. +</p></li> +<li><p><font color="#ff0000"> +3ware 9000 support for Windows was added 2006-09-27, the corresponding 3ware +driver 9.4.0 was released 2006-11-01. +</font></p></li> +<li><p><font color="#ff0000"> +HighPoint RocketRAID support for Linux was added 2006-08-25. +</font></p></li> +<li><p><font color="#ff0000"> +CCISS (Compaq Smart Array Controller) support for Linux was added 2006-10-09. +</font></p></li> </ul> <p> -To see if your system's <tt>3w-xxxx</tt> driver has been patched, give the -command:<br/> -<tt>smartctl -H -S on -o on -d 3ware,? /dev/sd?</tt> -<br/> -If you -have an unpatched kernel, you'll see warning messages prompting you to -patch the kernel.</p> -<p> -The 3ware <tt>3w-xxxx</tt> version 1.02.00.037 driver first appeared -in kernel version 2.6.0-test5-bk11 on 24 September 2003 and in kernel -version 2.4.23-bk2 on 3 December 2003. It was officially released on -the 3ware web site on December 19, 2003 as part of their -driver/firmware/utility package version 7.7.0. +The recent additions will appear in upcoming release 5.37. </p> - <p> -Note (added 29 July 2004): starting with smartmontools (experimental) -release 5.33, one can also access SMART data from drives behind 3ware -controllers using the (character) devices /dev/twe0-15. This should -work correctly even with older versions of the 3w-xxxx driver. One can -also access SMART data from drives behind 3ware 9000-series -controllers (3w-9xxx driver) using the (character) devices -/dev/twa0-15. +See<b> +<a href="http://smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net/smartmontools/sm5/INSTALL?view=markup">INSTALL</a> +</b>file for information about kernel and driver requirements on your platform, +and the <a href="#man">man pages</a> for controller specific smartmontools options or +directives (<tt>-d 3ware,N</tt>, <tt>-d cciss,N</tt>, <tt>-d hpt,L/M/N</tt>). </p> </li> @@ -1264,8 +1261,8 @@ from smartmontools smartctl utility:</b> Maintained by: <a href="mailto:smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net">Bruce Allen</a><br /> Copyright (C) 2002-5 Bruce Allen<br /> -Last updated: <tt>$Date: 2006/09/01 17:12:49 $</tt><br /> -CVS tag: <tt>$Id: index.html,v 1.207 2006/09/01 17:12:49 guidog Exp $</tt> +Last updated: <tt>$Date: 2006/11/04 20:04:26 $</tt><br /> +CVS tag: <tt>$Id: index.html,v 1.208 2006/11/04 20:04:26 chrfranke Exp $</tt> <hr size="2" /> -- GitLab