Better supporting drives behind RAID cards...

[Oren Maxximix]

Regarding the smartmontools in Ubuntu 12.04.01 LTS (x64, though I doubt x86 behaves differently):

I've made a simple patch to the service script for smartmontools to add support for options to be passed via /etc/default/smartmontools to smartctl. Options for smartd are already provided.

Please see:

http://pastebin.com/54M4dGXW

Also, if the maintainers could give a thought about how to more succintly express devices located behind RAID cards, that would be appreciated. The mechanism at the moment assumes a simplistically/directly attached as /dev/[hs]dX model.

Currently, I'm hacking it together by using this script as above and adding the /dev/twaX device as a "static" parametre to smartctl via the smartctl_opt.

Like so in /etc/default/smartmontools:

enable_smart="--device=3ware,0 --device=3ware,1 --device=3ware,2 --device=3ware,3 \
--device=3ware,4 --device=3ware,5 --device=3ware,6 --device=3ware,7 \
--device=3ware,8 --device=3ware,9 --device=3ware,10 --device=3ware,11 \
--device=3ware,12 --device=3ware,13 --device=3ware,14 --device=3ware,15"

smartctl_opts="/dev/twa0 -o on -S on"

Thanks,
Oren