To look at ata disks behind 3ware scsi raid controllers, use syntax such as. The first call of the command smartctl d 3ware, a devtwa0 after boot. For disks accessed via the cciss driver the device nodes are of the form. With recent driver versions smart access works on 64bit windows 7 see. Diagnose and replace a defective hard drive linux dedicated. For disks accessed via the cciss driver the device nodes are of the form dev ccissc09d0. All modern hard drives offer the possibility to monitor its current state via smart attributes. This man page is generated for the linux version of smartmontools. Hard disk status prior to the testings only one short test performed days ago. Smartmontools for scsi devices the linux scsi generic sg. These values provide information about various parameters of the hard disk and can provide. It does not contain info specific to other platforms. This is working fine smartctl a devhda but i would like the output to only be the value for temperature. Control and monitor utility for smart disks linux man.
The purpose of smart is to monitor the reliability of the hard drive and predict drive failures, and to carry out. Ive centos linux and freebsd based server running using 3ware. For disks accessed via the cciss driver the device nodes are of the form devccissc09d0. Im running smartctl from svn head revision 2985 on an amd64 system with linux kernel 2. Devices devsda and devtwe0 is used with 3ware series 6000, 7000, and. For disks behind intel controller with rst driver or an amd controller.
Vincent danen has some tips for using the smartmontools package to obtain important information about the health of your hard drives that could provide early warning signs of problems. But, i could view the smart info when i used this command. Lsi 3ware sata raid controller, d 3ware,n devtwx, d 3ware,n devtwx. I would like to change the smartctl call to another one for getting it to work with. Lsi 3ware, 1, smartctl ihal error devtwe0 d 3ware,0. Smart additional configuration options for hardware raid. Main page server software linux linuxstorage smartmontools.
Hp controllers with cciss and hpsahpahcisr drivers thanks to fabrice bacchella. Gsmartcontrol is a graphical user interface for smartctl from smartmontools package. In such a cause you will need to try some of the possible device types see the d option in manpage for this and try each of them. Smartmontools is made up of two executable programs, a configuration file. Posted on december 11, 2012 updated on december 11, 2012. The option \aq\d 3ware,n\aq is not necessary on windows. Is there any way to pipe this data to smartctl run under linux. Smartmontools with windows and intel matrix raid csmi. The author is the creator of nixcraft and a seasoned sysadmin, devops engineer, and a trainer for the linux operating systemunix shell scripting. For example, i could not view smart info for a toshiba canvio usb 3.