On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 11:14:37AM -0800, Robert Walsh wrote: > > I'd love to see some sort of ganglia integration with SMART, maybe via > > the smartmontools code (http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/). One > > gotcha to watch out for is that a number of IBM GXP drives fail when > > they get SMART queries. :-( > > Holy carp, really? Does smartmontools know about this?
They don't say much about it, but they know about the issue. Here's a
changelog entry related to it from sm5:
[BA] smartctl: Added a warning message so that users of some IBM
disks are warned to update their firmware. Note: we may want
to add a command-line flag to disable the warning messages.
I have done this in a general way, using regexp, so that we
can add warnings about any type of disk that we wish...
There's a brief mention on this website as well:
http://www.geocities.com/dtla_update/
While S.M.A.R.T. offline scan running in background, a read error
could cause a potential failure. This is corrected with current
microcode.
You can do a firmware update to fix it, but I'm pretty sure that has to
be interactive which makes it really suck if you have many (I've got
50-60 in our cluster).
-- Brooks
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