id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc 139,smartctl can not modify CCTL ( TLER equivalent) on Hitachi UltraStar on LSI 1068 SAS controller.,maurice780,somebody,"Using Hitachi 1TB UltraStar disks, HUA722010CLA330 On LSI1068 embedded SAS chip (on motherboard) OS: CentOS 5.1 on ROCKS5 cluster. Updated mptsas driver to mptlinux-4.24.00.00-2.x86_64 smartmontools 5.40 kernel 2.6.18-194.11.3.el5 Trying to read/modify CCTL settings. Fails to communicate with the drives CCTL. CAN see drives. Examples: smartctl -l scterc /dev/sda smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build) Probable ATA device behind a SAT layer Try an additional '-d ata' or '-d sat' argument. [root@lagavulin ~]# smartctl -d sat -T permissive -l scterc /dev/sda smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build) Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device) Warning: device does not support SCT Commands A couple more tests show that it thinks it's a scsi device, and then '-l scterc' returns nothing. This is true for both Hitachi and Seagate drives. [root@lagavulin ~]# smartctl -d test /dev/sda smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build) /dev/sda: Device of type 'scsi' [SCSI] detected /dev/sda: Device of type 'scsi' [SCSI] opened [root@lagavulin ~]# smartctl -a -d scsi /dev/sda smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build) Serial number: JPW9J0HD0DD0TC Device type: disk Local Time is: Wed Dec 1 13:25:04 2010 EST Device supports SMART and is Enabled Temperature Warning Disabled or Not Supported SMART Health Status: OK Error Counter logging not supported Device does not support Self Test logging [root@lagavulin ~]# smartctl -a -d scsi /dev/sdb smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build) Serial number: 3QJ01G92 Device type: disk Local Time is: Wed Dec 1 13:37:03 2010 EST Device supports SMART and is Enabled Temperature Warning Disabled or Not Supported SMART Health Status: OK Error Counter logging not supported Device does not support Self Test logging [root@lagavulin ~]# smartctl -d scsi -l scterc /dev/sda smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build) Verifying current versions and earlier problems with lockups on the mptsas device we tried this test: # while true; do smartctl -a /dev/sdb > /dev/null; done This produced no errors or lockups. Is there SOME WAY to set CCTL on these drives?? ",defect,closed,major,,all,5.40,wontfix,,