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