SMART Utilities for RAID Arrays

[Bishoop]

Are there any SMART monitoring utilities that will work with drives
connected to a Promise TX2000 controller card?

Thanks.....

 

[Eric Gisin]

There is a standard for accessing individual drives in SCSI RAID, but there is
nothing like that for IDE. It is up to promise/highpoint to put failure
prediction into their RAID drivers..

| Are there any SMART monitoring utilities that will work with drives
| connected to a Promise TX2000 controller card?
|
| Thanks.....
|
|

 

[Eric Gisin]

There is a standard for accessing individual drives in SCSI RAID, but there is
nothing like that for IDE. It is up to promise/highpoint to put failure
prediction into their RAID drivers..

| Are there any SMART monitoring utilities that will work with drives
| connected to a Promise TX2000 controller card?
|
| Thanks.....
|
|

 

[J.Clarke]

What standard are you talking about? I'm familiar with the
vendor-unique programming for Adaptec, Infortrend, Mylex, LSI,
Chaparral, Accusys, Ario, (as well as the ATA vendors Promise, and
Highpoint that make the ATA disks appear as SCSI disks to the O/S),
and they are all very different from each other, and most of them
don't even provide a method for sending pass-through to individual
drives.

I'm also active in the SNIA's DDF workgroup which is defining a
standard mechanism .. .this is 6 months to a year away from being
turned into products ..

So, what standard are you talking about? How do you have a standard
if none of the RAID controller vendors are using it?

I'd like to see this standard for SCSI RAID.

 

[David A.Lethe]

There is a standard for accessing individual drives in SCSI RAID, but there is
nothing like that for IDE. It is up to promise/highpoint to put failure
prediction into their RAID drivers..

| Are there any SMART monitoring utilities that will work with drives
| connected to a Promise TX2000 controller card?
|
| Thanks.....
|
|

What standard are you talking about? I'm familiar with the
vendor-unique programming for Adaptec, Infortrend, Mylex, LSI,
Chaparral, Accusys, Ario, (as well as the ATA vendors Promise, and
Highpoint that make the ATA disks appear as SCSI disks to the O/S),
and they are all very different from each other, and most of them
don't even provide a method for sending pass-through to individual
drives.

I'm also active in the SNIA's DDF workgroup which is defining a
standard mechanism .. .this is 6 months to a year away from being
turned into products ..

So, what standard are you talking about? How do you have a standard
if none of the RAID controller vendors are using it?

 

[Eric Gisin]

I meant SCSI drives under SCSI RAID.


| What standard are you talking about? I'm familiar with the
| vendor-unique programming for Adaptec, Infortrend, Mylex, LSI,
| Chaparral, Accusys, Ario, (as well as the ATA vendors Promise, and
| Highpoint that make the ATA disks appear as SCSI disks to the O/S),
| and they are all very different from each other, and most of them
| don't even provide a method for sending pass-through to individual
| drives.
|

 

[David A.Lethe]

I meant SCSI drives under SCSI RAID.


| What standard are you talking about? I'm familiar with the
| vendor-unique programming for Adaptec, Infortrend, Mylex, LSI,
| Chaparral, Accusys, Ario, (as well as the ATA vendors Promise, and
| Highpoint that make the ATA disks appear as SCSI disks to the O/S),
| and they are all very different from each other, and most of them
| don't even provide a method for sending pass-through to individual
| drives.
|

I did not limit my query to SATA or PATA disks, none of the SCSI or
FibreChannel vendors adhere to any kind of standard, that I've ever
come upon, see previous posting for a list of the mainstream vendors.
Sure,

The only thing close is that SMI-S is moving along quite nicely, but
only a handful of engines have it today on a limited number of
high-end subsystems.

David