[plug] hot freeze - not a contradiction in terms

[Bernd Felsche]

Gavin Chester <sales at ecosolutions.com.au> writes:
>On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 10:20 +0800, Timothy White wrote:

>> > > Depending on what your hardware supports, there are a few other heat
>> > > sensor packages to install to monitor various components.
>> >
>> > I have smartmontools installed but unfortunately I get "device does not
>> > support SMART" and "device does not support self-test logging", etc.
>> > Since my drives are scsi, I tried another tool "safte-monitor" for
>> > SAF-TE capable enclosures (SCSI Accessible Fault Tolerant Enclosures),
>> > but also hit a brick wall with this message "No SAF-TE devices present"
>> > Then I tried "scsirastools" and it showed one scsi drive had 31 grown
>> > defects, but that utility doesn't log temperatures :-(  I've come up
>> > against blank, then.
>> 
>> What SCSI controller? 

>LSI Logic raid array, running two 36GB scsi drives in a single 72GB LVM
>system.  I have some replacement 73GB scsi drives bought off ebay, maybe
>it's time to shift my system across to them, especially as one of the
>existing 36GB drives is accumulating bad blocks :-( 

Maybe the raid array controller is messing with the SMART commands.
If the RAID function on the controller being used?

>> For example SATA drives need extra params to get
>> their temps. My SATA drives need '-d ata' under smartctl to get SMART
>> data.
>> 
>>   -d TYPE, --device=TYPE
>>     Specifies the type of the device.  The valid arguments  to  this
>>     option  are  ata,  scsi, marvell, and 3ware,N. If this option is
>>     not used then smartctl will attempt to  guess  the  device  type
>>     from the device name.
>> 
>> Try hddtemp as well. It reads my SATA drives no problem.

>My reading of hddtemp is that it calls info from SMART drives, whereas
>mine report NOT being smart capable :-( 

What brand? All the Seagate-based SCSI "I" have provide SMART
information.

Even older (ca 1995 9GB) IBM-branded SCSI drives have such
information.
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