Smartmontools: smartd - operation not supported by device, close failed

[Nick Jagger]

----- Original Message ----
From: Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org>
Subject: Re: Smartmontools: smartd -  operation not supported by device, close failed

Nick Jagger wrote:
>> This is about a smart array 6i controller (ciss) on a hp proliant dl360g4p.
>> Running 6.2 RC1 (up to next build)
> 
>> from dmesg:
>> ciss0: <HP Smart Array 6i> port 0x4000-0x40ff mem 0xfdff0000-0xfdff1fff,0xfdf80000-0xfdfbffff >irq 24 at device 1.0 on pci2
>> ciss0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>> da0 at ciss0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> 
>> I have configured smartd.conf (from smartmontools) as:
>> /dev/ciss0 -a -d cciss,0 -m root at localhost
> 
>> When running smartd, it returns the following message at every check of the disk: 
> 
>> May 20 14:32:03 server smartd[4867]: Device: /dev/ciss0 [cciss_disk_00], Operation not supported by device, close(195) failed
> 
>> Is this something to be concerned about?
 


>/dev/ciss isn't a disk device, it's the control device for the card 
>firmware.  Why is smartmontools looking at it?

It actually looks behind it, as per the -d cciss,0(1) option (see smartd.conf(4)), and it reports actually well on the s.m.a.r.t. status of the disks, like this:

% sudo smartctl -a -d cciss,0 /dev/ciss0                                                                                               ~
smartctl version 5.37 [amd64-portbld-freebsd6.2] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Device: COMPAQ   BD0186349B       Version: 3B15
Serial number: 3BT1B7S700002109YA33
Device type: disk
Local Time is: Sun May 20 17:39:16 2007 CEST
Device supports SMART and is Enabled
Temperature Warning Enabled
SMART Health Status: OK

Current Drive Temperature:     23 C
Drive Trip Temperature:        65 C
Elements in grown defect list: 0
Vendor (Seagate) cache information
  Blocks sent to initiator = 1625138088
  Blocks received from initiator = 1251775924
  Blocks read from cache and sent to initiator = 444359024
  Number of read and write commands whose size <= segment size = 155560323
  Number of read and write commands whose size > segment size = 257849242
Vendor (Seagate/Hitachi) factory information
  number of hours powered up = 29399.90
  number of minutes until next internal SMART test = 70

et cetera





       
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