Support for DELL PERC H730P on Windows

[arinci]

I'm using a DELL Poweredge R540 server with 4 x 480G SSDs, model MTFDDAK480TDC from Micron.
I thought to be able to read smart data with smartctl, but I had no luck. It's due to the DELL PERC H730P that is not allowing to do the pass-trough of smart data in a way that smartctl is able to understand. This is the output with "--scan":

C:\Program Files\smartmontools\bin>smartctl --scan
/dev/sda -d scsi # /dev/sda, SCSI device

If I try to query the logical volume managed by the RAID controller I obtain this:

C:\Program Files\smartmontools\bin>smartctl /dev/sda -x
smartctl 7.2 2020-04-05 r5049 [x86_64-w64-mingw32-2019] (CircleCI)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor:               DELL
Product:              PERC H730P Adp
Revision:             4.30
Compliance:           SPC-3
User Capacity:        1,438,679,826,432 bytes [1.43 TB]
Logical block size:   512 bytes
Physical block size:  4096 bytes
Logical Unit id:      0x64cd98f0c2f20400262b359b1714081c
Serial number:        001c0814179b352b260004f2c2f098cd
Device type:          disk
Local Time is:        Wed Apr 22 00:40:16 2020 WEDT
SMART support is:     Unavailable - device lacks SMART capability.
Read Cache is:        Disabled
Writeback Cache is:   Disabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
Current Drive Temperature:     0 C
Drive Trip Temperature:        0 C

Error Counter logging not supported

Device does not support Self Test logging
Device does not support Background scan results logging

So I tested with other 2 smart monitoring tools:

• Hard Disk Sentinel
• Crystal Disk Info

and quite surprisingly both of them was able to do read smart data from disks!

As I know that the latter sw is open source, can someone do a little research to understand if is possible to patch the source code to allow to read data from the above mentioned PERC RAID controller?
I'm attaching here a little report obtained with CrystalDiskInfo, if useful.

Please note that the o.s. is Windows Server 2019.

Do not hesitate to ask me more info.
Thank you

[Christian Franke]

Please provide output of smartctl -r ioctl,2 --scan as an attachment.

[Christian Franke]

Some former Windows drivers for LSI based RAID controllers reportedly supported CSMI. The debug output shows that this is not the case for the DELL PERC H730P driver.

So I tested with other 2 smart monitoring tools: ...

• Crystal Disk Info

The ​commit d774159 from CrystalDiskInfo source code adds MegaRAID support.

[Christian Franke]

Leaving ticket open as unscheduled until someone with access to such hardware and enough spare time is willing to work on this.

[Christian Franke]

Possibly related: tickets #243, #500, #702, #740, #856.

[Christian Franke]

Possibly related: ticket #330.

[Christian Franke]

Possibly related: ticket #1334.