smartmontools with aac

Scott Long scottl at freebsd.org
Thu May 13 09:06:53 PDT 2004


Don Bowman wrote:
> is there a way to use smartmontools with
> aac?
> 
> e.g. smartctl wants to see 'ad0' or 'da0'
> as the disk to connect to. For aac, it is
> aacd0. Specifying:
> 
> smartctl -i -d scsi -a aacd0
> gives
> Smartctl open device: aacd0 failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> 
> I'm not really sure what ioctl are being used,
> i guess i should look in the smartmontool source.
> 
> --don

AAC containers do not export SMART events.  You can monitor individual
disks by enabling the aacp driver and watching the /dev/passN devices,
or you can script the aaccli to report events for you.

Scott


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