Opened 11 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

#240 closed enhancement (fixed)

Support for more than 24 drives at a time

Reported by: acasis Owned by: somebody
Priority: major Milestone: Release 6.1
Component: all Version: 5.43
Keywords: windows Cc:

Description

Is it possible to have more than 24 drive support at a time?

Attachments (6)

smartd.conf​ (6.7 KB) - added by acasis 11 years ago.
smartctl_sas.pl​ (754 bytes) - added by acasis 11 years ago.
32802CFRW8.txt​ (1.6 KB) - added by acasis 11 years ago.
smartctl_sata.pl​ (604 bytes) - added by acasis 11 years ago.
SAS.txt​ (1.6 KB) - added by acasis 11 years ago.
SATA.txt​ (4.5 KB) - added by acasis 11 years ago.

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Change History (11)

comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by Christian Franke

Such limits are platform and controller specific.

Please describe your use case (Platform, RAID-Controller, smartd.conf).

Changed 11 years ago by acasis

Attachment: smartd.conf​ added

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Attachment: smartctl_sas.pl​ added

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comment:2 Changed 11 years ago by acasis

We're running in JBOD setup (60 drives per host) - Dell Server, Win2008 R2, HBA SAS LSI 3000 series 1068E.

Our other utilities can detect all the drives but I wanted to explore smartmon.

See attached smartd.conf.

Also, is there any syntax to display all possible info for SATA and SAS? I am still going through the changelist but appreciate if there is one available already.

Thanks in advance

comment:3 Changed 11 years ago by Christian Franke

Keywords: windows added

This is a limitation of pseudo device names sdX and smartd DEVICESCAN.
Please use device names pdN (N=0...255) instead.

If the controller firmware provides a SAT conforming INQUIRY result, the following should work to display all possible info for the last drive regardless of device type

smartctl -x -d sat,auto pd59

The following smartd.conf should work to monitor all drives:

DEFAULT -d sat,auto -d removable [...more directives]
pd0
pd1
...
pd59

Both -d sat,auto and DEFAULT require at least smartmontools 5.43. Please test new ​smartmontools 6.0 if possible.

comment:4 Changed 11 years ago by Christian Franke

Milestone: → Release 6.1

Do the examples from last comment work for you?

comment:5 Changed 11 years ago by Christian Franke

Resolution: → fixed
Status: new → closed

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