I can use the smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sdb to read hard disk health status directly connected to my system. But, how do I read smartctl command to check disk SAS / SCSI behind Adaptec RAID controller from the shell prompt?
You need to use the following syntax to check SATA or SAS disk which are typically simulate a (logical) disk for each array of (physical) disks to the OS. /dev/sgX can be used as pass through I/O controls providing direct access to each physical disk for Adaptec raid controllers.
SATA Health Check Disk Syntax
# smartctl -d sat --all /dev/sgX
# smartctl -d sat --all /dev/sg1
Run test:
# smartctl -d sat --all /dev/sg1 -H
For SAS disk use the following syntax:
# smartctl -d scsi --all /dev/sgX
# smartctl -d scsi --all /dev/sg1
# smartctl -d scsi --all /dev/sg1 -H
Sample outputs:
smartctl version 5.38 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
Device: SEAGATE ST3146855SS Version: 0002
Serial number: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Device type: disk
Transport protocol: SAS
Local Time is: Wed Jul 7 04:34:30 2010 CDT
Device supports SMART and is Enabled
Temperature Warning Enabled
SMART Health Status: OK
Current Drive Temperature: 24 C
Drive Trip Temperature: 68 C
Elements in grown defect list: 0
Vendor (Seagate) cache information
Blocks sent to initiator = 1857385803
Blocks received from initiator = 1967221471
Blocks read from cache and sent to initiator = 804439119
Number of read and write commands whose size <= segment size = 312098925
Number of read and write commands whose size > segment size = 45998
Vendor (Seagate/Hitachi) factory information
number of hours powered up = 13224.42
number of minutes until next internal SMART test = 42
Error counter log:
Errors Corrected by Total Correction Gigabytes Total
ECC rereads/ errors algorithm processed uncorrected
fast | delayed rewrites corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errors
read: 58984049 1 0 58984050 58984050 3151.730 0
write: 0 0 0 0 0 9921230881.600 0
verify: 1308 0 0 1308 1308 0.000 0
Non-medium error count: 0
No self-tests have been logged
Long (extended) Self Test duration: 1367 seconds [22.8 minutes]
Replace /dev/sg1 with your disk number. If you've raid 10 array with 4 disks than:
- /dev/sg0 - RAID 10 controller (you will not get any info or /dev/sg0).
- /dev/sg1 - First disk in RAID 10 array.
- /dev/sg2 - Second disk in RAID 10 array.
- /dev/sg3 - Third disk in RAID 10 array.
- /dev/sg4 - Fourth disk in RAID 10 array.
Another simple command to just check basic status is as follows:
# /usr/StorMan/arcconf getconfig 1 | grep State
# /usr/StorMan/arcconf getconfig 1 | grep -B 3 State
Sample outputs:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Device #0
Device is a Hard drive
State : Online
--
S.M.A.R.T. : No
Device #1
Device is a Hard drive
State : Online
--
S.M.A.R.T. : No
Device #2
Device is a Hard drive
State : Online
--
S.M.A.R.T. : No
Device #3
Device is a Hard drive
State : Online
See also:
- Monitoring hard disk health with smartd under Linux or UNIX operating systems
- Test If Linux Server SCSI / SATA Hard Disk Going Bad
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I have written a script based on arcconf.
You can find it here … http://fir3net.com/Programming/Bourne-/-BASH/adaptec-storage-manager-script-for-esx4.html
If you don’t know the drive numbers you can guess, or use sg_scan to determine them.
You may need to install sg_utils
List all generic scsi devices:
# sg_scan -i
Also, unless Adaptec has updated some of the older drivers this will only work with their series 2 and series 5 controllers, not series 3. Some additional information in the comments for this blog post: http://linux.adaptec.com/2008/09/26/smartmontools-and-adaptec-raid-controllers/
Actually above output came from series 3 controller Adaptec 3405 with latest firmware. However, we don’t have any series 2 controller left here. So I can’t verify series 2. The series 5 also works.
HTH.
I have series 2 and 5 and have not had issues with either of them. Perhaps Adaptec updated the drivers for series 3.
On my CentOS 5.5 x64, the smartctrl doesn’t has a -d sata option, but has a -d sat option. Maybe you have it misspelled.
Thanks for the heads up!
That is a different one. You can have “-d ata” to use ATA commands or newer “-d sat” to use SAT (SCSI/ATA Translation). The later is used usually for USB drives.
@ Vikas I seriously feel that the quality of the posts of late on this blog is coming down. The reason being that in your above post you have pasted the sample output and you have failed to mention what the output actually means,which indeed is of utmost importance.
What can i make out of the above copy-pasted stuff ?? I feel explaining the outcome of a command is of greater importance than anything else.I personally don’t mean to be scornful or anything as such but seriously the admin of the blog needs to take a second look at his posts to see if they make any sense at all to its readers. Its just a suggestion that i had since i really like your blog.
Seriously? You don’t understand above output? The command find out of, if there are any errors for reading and writing hard disk? The output will tell you if hard disk is going to fail or not in advance (hint #1, SMART Health Status: OK, hint #2 total error counter for uncorrcted error log is 0). Did you went thought two articles I linked at the bottom of the page (See also:) which explains the smartctl command and what to look out when disk fails. If you still don’t get it than I suggest you join our forum to post specific question or go through smartctl man page.
HTH,
PS: My name is vivek.