[smartmontools-support] DEFAULT -n standby not working for Adaptec Raid

[David C. Partridge]

It’s checking the power state from C code that I suspect is what’s needed for smartctl/smartd to check.

 

D.

 

From: Sachin.Kumar2 at microchip.com <Sachin.Kumar2 at microchip.com> 
Sent: 04 February 2021 15:30
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Subject: RE: [smartmontools-support] DEFAULT -n standby not working for Adaptec Raid

 

Hi David,

 

We can check power state using hdparm tool as below but most of the customers will use arcconf or maxview or BIOS

[root at localhost StorMan]# hdparm -C /dev/sdc

/dev/sdc:
drive state is: active/idle

 

Thanks

Sachin

 

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Subject: RE: [smartmontools-support] DEFAULT -n standby not working for Adaptec Raid

 

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root at charon:/home/amonra# smartctl -l devstat -d aacraid,0,0,1 /dev/sdb

smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 [x86_64-linux-5.4.0-65-generic] (local build)

Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org <http://www.smartmontools.org> 

 

root at charon:/home/amonra# 

 

Which didn’t tell me much about the online/powered off state …

 

None of the other smartctl -l options seems appropriate:

 

=======> VALID ARGUMENTS ARE: error, selftest, selective, directory[,g|s], xerror[,N][,error], xselftest[,N][,selftest], background, sasphy[,reset], sataphy[,reset], scttemp[sts,hist], scttempint,N[,p], scterc[,N,M], devstat[,N], defects[,N], ssd, gplog,N[,RANGE], smartlog,N[,RANGE], nvmelog,N,SIZE <=======

 

Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary

 

Regards

David

 

 

 

From: Sagar.Biradar at microchip.com <mailto:Sagar.Biradar at microchip.com>  <Sagar.Biradar at microchip.com <mailto:Sagar.Biradar at microchip.com> > 
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Subject: RE: [smartmontools-support] DEFAULT -n standby not working for Adaptec Raid

 

Forgot to add : smartctl can be used to do the same

“Smartctl -l /dev/sda”

 

SCSI command 12h can be used to inquire the status of the drive.

 

Thanks

Sagar

 

From: Sagar Biradar - C34249 
Sent: Wednesday, February 3, 2021 4:50 PM
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Subject: RE: [smartmontools-support] DEFAULT -n standby not working for Adaptec Raid

 

Hi David,

CLI tool - arcconf, or GUI tool - Maxview or the in the BIOS utility - CTRL-A can be used to check the status of the physical drive.
These can be downloaded on Microchip website.

 

I have attached the screenshots of these utilities and below is the command syntax for arcconf.

Example: “arcconf getconfig Contoller_num pd 0 1”


Device #0

         Device is a Hard drive

         State                                : Online

 

I am adding Firmware Engineer Sachin – for any further queries.

 

Thanks

Sagar

 

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> From: David C. Partridge [mailto:david.partridge at perdrix.co.uk]

> Sent: Monday, February 1, 2021 1:58 AM

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> <Sagar.Biradar at microchip.com <mailto:Sagar.Biradar at microchip.com> >

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> Subject: RE: [smartmontools-support] DEFAULT -n standby not working for

> Adaptec Raid

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> Yes, it is the controller that spins down the drives.

> 

> Is there an IOCTL to the ASR-8885 that will enquire what the power state of

> the drives is?

> 

> I don't know, but perhaps Sagar Biradar does?

> 

> Cheers

> David

> 

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Christian Franke <Christian.Franke at t-online.de <mailto:Christian.Franke at t-online.de> >

> Sent: 01 February 2021 06:34

> To: David C. Partridge <david.partridge at perdrix.co.uk <mailto:david.partridge at perdrix.co.uk> >

> Cc: smartmontools-support at listi.jpberlin.de <mailto:smartmontools-support at listi.jpberlin.de> 

> Subject: Re: [smartmontools-support] DEFAULT -n standby not working for

> Adaptec Raid

> 

> David C. Partridge wrote:

> > I just realised that I'd already put -n standby into all the lines for the

> > raid array drives long ago, so my recent addition of the DEFAULT line is a

> > red herring.

> >

> > Thread title should be just "-n standby not working ..."

> >

> > David

> >

> > -----Original Message-----

> > From: Smartmontools-support

> > <smartmontools-support-bounces at listi.jpberlin.de <mailto:smartmontools-support-bounces at listi.jpberlin.de> > On Behalf Of David C.

> > Partridge

> > Sent: 30 January 2021 14:07

> > To: 'smartmontools list' <smartmontools-support at listi.jpberlin.de <mailto:smartmontools-support at listi.jpberlin.de> >

> > Subject: [smartmontools-support] DEFAULT -n standby not working for

> Adaptec

> > Raid

> >

> > Set /etc/smartd.conf as follows with Adaptec ASR-8885 configured to

> power

> > drives down after 20 minutes:

> >

> > DEFAULT -n standby

> > dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:17.0-ata-1 -a -n standby -W 0,0,55 -m ... -M

> exec /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner

> 

> If the controller firmware spins down the drive, it may later spin up

> the drive before the next command is issued. A workaround would require

> a separate I/O-control which reports the power state before a

> pass-through command is issued. This would require a specification from

> Adaptec or some sample source code.

> 

> Note that '-n standby' for SCSI/SAS drives is only implemented in

> smartctl, but not yet in smartd.

> 

> Thanks,

> Christian

 

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