SMART data through SAS expanders - Hardware Compatibility https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/smart-data-through-sas-expanders/ SoftRAID Discussion Board en-US Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:40:40 +0000 wpForo 60 SMART data through SAS expanders https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/smart-data-through-sas-expanders/#post-971 Tue, 22 Dec 2015 00:54:54 +0000
So SoftRAID is showing correct power on hours and a reallocated sector count (hopefully of 0)?
No, it only is reporting I/O transactions and power on time (see attached). Note the SAS bus, ID and LUN are all zeros I ended up just buying an ATTO host adapter. All of the SMART information is correctly reported now through the SAS backplane expander. One software request. Please change the disk initialization code to absolutely, positively, not allow a repartition of a mounted file system. I wiped out eight 6tb mounted volumes on my Xserve RAIDs when they were accidentally included partitioning the SoftRAID disks. They were intermixed with the disks on the SAS expander and I didn't notice they were there when I shift-clicked the volumes to partition). I've spent the last week restoring the data to them.]]> Hardware Compatibility Al Kossow https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/smart-data-through-sas-expanders/#post-971 SMART data through SAS expanders https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/smart-data-through-sas-expanders/#post-964 Wed, 16 Dec 2015 04:43:11 +0000 Hardware Compatibility SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/smart-data-through-sas-expanders/#post-964 SMART data through SAS expanders https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/smart-data-through-sas-expanders/#post-963 Wed, 16 Dec 2015 00:37:02 +0000 So SoftRAID is showing correct power on hours and a reallocated sector count (hopefully of 0)? No, it only is reporting I/O transactions and power on time (see attached). Note the SAS bus, ID and LUN are all zeros]]> Hardware Compatibility Al Kossow https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/smart-data-through-sas-expanders/#post-963 SMART data through SAS expanders https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/smart-data-through-sas-expanders/#post-961 Tue, 15 Dec 2015 19:50:05 +0000 Hardware Compatibility SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/smart-data-through-sas-expanders/#post-961 SMART data through SAS expanders https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/smart-data-through-sas-expanders/#post-957 Tue, 15 Dec 2015 04:27:59 +0000 The card does work for creating arrays, here is a snapshot of the report Well, that's embarrassing. I created the arrays with Disk Utility instead of SoftRAID. The stats work if you actually use the right driver :-(]]> Hardware Compatibility Al Kossow https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/smart-data-through-sas-expanders/#post-957 SMART data through SAS expanders https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/smart-data-through-sas-expanders/#post-956 Tue, 15 Dec 2015 01:17:35 +0000 The Areca will probably depend on what SATA card you are using. Most do not pass any SMART data, or only Pass/fail data, not extended SMART parameters. The 1320 is a host adapter, and it does return extended SMART parameters if you use their command line tool. The card does work for creating arrays, here is a snapshot of the report, and it is getting some information, like the rev of firmware, but it isn't reporting power on hours, for example.]]> Hardware Compatibility Al Kossow https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/smart-data-through-sas-expanders/#post-956 SMART data through SAS expanders https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/smart-data-through-sas-expanders/#post-955 Tue, 15 Dec 2015 00:56:30 +0000 Hardware Compatibility SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/smart-data-through-sas-expanders/#post-955 SMART data through SAS expanders https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/smart-data-through-sas-expanders/#post-15 Tue, 15 Dec 2015 00:44:23 +0000 Hardware Compatibility Al Kossow https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/smart-data-through-sas-expanders/#post-15