S.M.A.R.T. and Windows RAID

[Pete]

Hi. I have an issue with being able to view the SMART status of drives
included in a Windows 2003 fault-tolerant array. There are 4 - 200GB
drives on a Promise Ultra 100 TX2 Controller (non-RAID). 2 drives have the
OS partition mirrored in the OS on the front and all four have the data
partition in RAID5 on the back. SMART status is greyed out in the
(logical) disk properties. I have installed several SMART utils and they
all perform the same way. I have another identical controller is another
machine in a single drive/channel config, and that reads the SMART data
just fine. Is it just a limitation of the properties of the logical disks
vs. the physical? Is there a util that that will look at the physical
disks seperate from the logical config? Thanks for reading.

Pete

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

Hi. I have an issue with being able to view the SMART status of drives
included in a Windows 2003 fault-tolerant array. There are 4 - 200GB
drives on a Promise Ultra 100 TX2 Controller (non-RAID). 2 drives have the
OS partition mirrored in the OS on the front and all four have the data
partition in RAID5 on the back. SMART status is greyed out in the
(logical) disk properties. I have installed several SMART utils and they
all perform the same way. I have another identical controller is another
machine in a single drive/channel config, and that reads the SMART data
just fine. Is it just a limitation of the properties of the logical disks
vs. the physical? Is there a util that that will look at the physical
disks seperate from the logical config? Thanks for reading.

Pete

It's a driver issue. Driver has to support S.M.A.R.T.

 

[Will Dormann]

Hi. I have an issue with being able to view the SMART status of drives
included in a Windows 2003 fault-tolerant array. There are 4 - 200GB
drives on a Promise Ultra 100 TX2 Controller (non-RAID).

vs. the physical? Is there a util that that will look at the physical
disks seperate from the logical config? Thanks for reading.

Try using the Promise FastCheck utility.

The last time I used it it was a simple pass/fail reading, but I guess
it's better than nothing.



-WD

 

[Pete]

Try using the Promise FastCheck utility.

The last time I used it it was a simple pass/fail reading, but I guess
it's better than nothing.



-WD

Thanks for the suggestion, a good idea, but it couldn't see the controller.

Pete