[CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

Sun Jul 27 13:39:34 UTC 2008
Rainer Duffner <rainer at ultra-secure.de>

Am 27.07.2008 um 14:51 schrieb Kai Schaetzl:

> It seems I can't smarm monitor disks on RAID controllers? I tried on
> several machines with two different controllers and on all I get  
> this when
> starting up smartd:
>
> Jul 27 14:36:43 c1 smartd[5944]: Opened configuration file
> /etc/smartd.conf
> Jul 27 14:36:43 c1 smartd[5944]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf
> parsed.
> Jul 27 14:36:43 c1 smartd[5944]: Device: /dev/sda, opened
> Jul 27 14:36:43 c1 smartd[5944]: Device: /dev/sda, Bad IEC (SMART)  
> mode
> page, err=4, skip device
> Jul 27 14:36:43 c1 smartd[5944]: Unable to register SCSI device /dev/ 
> sda
> at line 32 of file /etc/smartd.conf
> Jul 27 14:36:43 c1 smartd[5944]: Device /dev/sda not available
>
> /dev/sda is the virtual disk as it appears to CentOS as I can access  
> it
> with hdparm.
> Do I need to use another device for the RAID array (which?) or is it
> impossible to smart monitor "thru" a RAID controller?
>


What controller would that be?


Rainer