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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>No that’s not what this is about – the problem is that smartd wakes the drives when it does its regular check – it need to check the drive status (Active, Powered Off) before attempting to send a smart command to the devices currently it juist deos its half hourly cgheck and this causes the controller to wake the drive, Need a way for the smart code to ask the controller whether the drives are active or powered down.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>David<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> Sagar.Biradar@microchip.com <Sagar.Biradar@microchip.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> 06 February 2021 01:00<br><b>To:</b> david.partridge@perdrix.co.uk; Sachin.Kumar2@microchip.com; Christian.Franke@t-online.de; Balaji.Marimuthu@microchip.com; Kandula.UdayanadhBabu@microchip.com<br><b>Cc:</b> smartmontools-support@listi.jpberlin.de; Tom.White@microchip.com<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [smartmontools-support] DEFAULT -n standby not working for Adaptec Raid<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hi David,<br>Probably you are looking for this<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#DA846B'>aacraid,H,L,ID</span></i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#DA846B'> - [Linux, Windows and Cygwin only] the device consists of one or more SCSI/SAS or SATA disks connected to an AacRaid controller. The non-negative integers H,L,ID (Host number, Lun, ID) denote which disk on the controller is monitored. Use syntax such as:<br><b>smartctl -a -d aacraid,0,0,2 /dev/sda</b><br><b>smartctl -a -d aacraid,1,0,4 /dev/sdb</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#DA846B'>Option '-d sat,auto+...' is implicitly enabled to detect SATA disks. Use '-d scsi+aacraid,H,L,ID' to disable it.<br>On Linux, the following entry in /proc/devices must exist: <b>aac</b>. Character device nodes /dev/aacH (H=Host number) are created if required.<br>On Windows, the device name parameter /dev/sdX is ignored if '-d aacraid' is specified.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>From</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#DA846B'>: <a href="https://www.smartmontools.org/browser/trunk/smartmontools/smartctl.8.in" target="_blank" title="https://www.smartmontools.org/browser/trunk/smartmontools/smartctl.8.in">https://www.smartmontools.org/browser/trunk/smartmontools/smartctl.8.in</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I am adding Balaji and Uday, from the apps team to help with exact IOCTLs and possible alternatives.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Balaji and Uday – could you please help David with tools/IOCTL to find the powerstate of all the drives participating in a volume?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Sagar<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> David C. Partridge [<a href="mailto:david.partridge@perdrix.co.uk">mailto:david.partridge@perdrix.co.uk</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 5, 2021 1:44 PM<br><b>To:</b> Sachin Kumar - I31159 <<a href="mailto:Sachin.Kumar2@microchip.com">Sachin.Kumar2@microchip.com</a>>; Sagar Biradar - C34249 <<a href="mailto:Sagar.Biradar@microchip.com">Sagar.Biradar@microchip.com</a>>; <a href="mailto:Christian.Franke@t-online.de">Christian.Franke@t-online.de</a><br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:smartmontools-support@listi.jpberlin.de">smartmontools-support@listi.jpberlin.de</a>; Tom White - C33503 <<a href="mailto:Tom.White@microchip.com">Tom.White@microchip.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [smartmontools-support] DEFAULT -n standby not working for Adaptec Raid<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:solid red 1.0pt;padding:2.0pt 2.0pt 2.0pt 2.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:yellow'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'>EXTERNAL EMAIL: </span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Do not click links or open attachments unless you know the content is safe <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Or in fact how to ask the raid controller about the power status of each logical device as the RAID config is for power management by logical device.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>D.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> Smartmontools-support <<a href="mailto:smartmontools-support-bounces@listi.jpberlin.de">smartmontools-support-bounces@listi.jpberlin.de</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>David C. Partridge<br><b>Sent:</b> 05 February 2021 16:41<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:Sachin.Kumar2@microchip.com">Sachin.Kumar2@microchip.com</a>; <a href="mailto:Sagar.Biradar@microchip.com">Sagar.Biradar@microchip.com</a>; <a href="mailto:Christian.Franke@t-online.de">Christian.Franke@t-online.de</a><br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:smartmontools-support@listi.jpberlin.de">smartmontools-support@listi.jpberlin.de</a>; <a href="mailto:Tom.White@microchip.com">Tom.White@microchip.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [smartmontools-support] DEFAULT -n standby not working for Adaptec Raid<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>hdparm -C /dev/sdb reports standby for the logical device anyhow when the device is in Active status (which is wrong)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>We need to know how to ask the raid controller the state of each of the *<b>physical</b>* devices which make up the raid array.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>D.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>