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S.M.A.R.T. Software Monitoring Problem
Dear all,
I've been trying to find a software to monitor my HDDs with S.M.A.R.T. However, none of the softwares I tried can detect the S.M.A.R.T. information. I tried: - HDD Life - HD Tune - Sandra - Lavalys - PC Wizard... My config is is follows: - Motherboard: Gigabyte: GA-K8U-939 - SATA Controller: Silicon Image SiI 3114 SoftRaid 5 Controller - Windows XP Pro SP2 Sometimes the software detects the HDD, sometimes not. However, I can never read the S.M.A.R.T. information. Is there any good software that works out there ? Thanks, Nick, |
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S.M.A.R.T. Software Monitoring Problem
Previously Nick wrote:
Dear all, I've been trying to find a software to monitor my HDDs with S.M.A.R.T. However, none of the softwares I tried can detect the S.M.A.R.T. information. I tried: - HDD Life - HD Tune - Sandra - Lavalys - PC Wizard... My config is is follows: - Motherboard: Gigabyte: GA-K8U-939 - SATA Controller: Silicon Image SiI 3114 SoftRaid 5 Controller - Windows XP Pro SP2 Sometimes the software detects the HDD, sometimes not. However, I can never read the S.M.A.R.T. information. Is there any good software that works out there ? The smartmontools. Ported over from Linux. Commandline, which means you can script stuff. And free. Arno |
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S.M.A.R.T. Software Monitoring Problem
On Apr 9, 8:37 am, Arno Wagner wrote:
Previously Nick wrote: Dear all, I've been trying to find a software to monitor my HDDs with S.M.A.R.T. However, none of the softwares I tried can detect the S.M.A.R.T. information. I tried: - HDD Life - HD Tune - Sandra - Lavalys - PC Wizard... My config is is follows: - Motherboard: Gigabyte: GA-K8U-939 - SATA Controller: Silicon Image SiI 3114 SoftRaid 5 Controller - Windows XP Pro SP2 Sometimes the software detects the HDD, sometimes not. However, I can never read the S.M.A.R.T. information. Is there any good software that works out there ? The smartmontools. Ported over from Linux. Commandline, which means you can script stuff. And free. Arno- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I tried those.. and they apparently also did not detect my HDDs or SMART info. |
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S.M.A.R.T. Software Monitoring Problem
Previously Nick wrote:
On Apr 9, 8:37 am, Arno Wagner wrote: Previously Nick wrote: Dear all, I've been trying to find a software to monitor my HDDs with S.M.A.R.T. However, none of the softwares I tried can detect the S.M.A.R.T. information. I tried: - HDD Life - HD Tune - Sandra - Lavalys - PC Wizard... My config is is follows: - Motherboard: Gigabyte: GA-K8U-939 - SATA Controller: Silicon Image SiI 3114 SoftRaid 5 Controller - Windows XP Pro SP2 Sometimes the software detects the HDD, sometimes not. However, I can never read the S.M.A.R.T. information. Is there any good software that works out there ? The smartmontools. Ported over from Linux. Commandline, which means you can script stuff. And free. Arno- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I tried those.. and they apparently also did not detect my HDDs or SMART info. Then it is an OS issue. If the OS can access the disk, then the smartmontools can report the status. Arno |
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S.M.A.R.T. Software Monitoring Problem
Previously Arno Wagner wrote:
Previously Nick wrote: On Apr 9, 8:37 am, Arno Wagner wrote: Previously Nick wrote: Dear all, I've been trying to find a software to monitor my HDDs with S.M.A.R.T. However, none of the softwares I tried can detect the S.M.A.R.T. information. I tried: - HDD Life - HD Tune - Sandra - Lavalys - PC Wizard... My config is is follows: - Motherboard: Gigabyte: GA-K8U-939 - SATA Controller: Silicon Image SiI 3114 SoftRaid 5 Controller - Windows XP Pro SP2 Sometimes the software detects the HDD, sometimes not. However, I can never read the S.M.A.R.T. information. Is there any good software that works out there ? The smartmontools. Ported over from Linux. Commandline, which means you can script stuff. And free. Arno- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I tried those.. and they apparently also did not detect my HDDs or SMART info. Then it is an OS issue. If the OS can access the disk, then the smartmontools can report the status. Hmm. Come to think of it, maybe the OS remaps these disks as SCSI disks? Then there is no interface functionality to query SMART. Arno |
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S.M.A.R.T. Software Monitoring Problem
"Arno Wagner" wrote in message
Previously Nick wrote: On Apr 9, 8:37 am, Arno Wagner wrote: Previously Nick wrote: Dear all, I've been trying to find a software to monitor my HDDs with S.M.A.R.T. However, none of the softwares I tried can detect the S.M.A.R.T. information. I tried: - HDD Life - HD Tune - Sandra - Lavalys - PC Wizard... My config is is follows: - Motherboard: Gigabyte: GA-K8U-939 - SATA Controller: Silicon Image SiI 3114 SoftRaid 5 Controller - Windows XP Pro SP2 Sometimes the software detects the HDD, sometimes not. However, I can never read the S.M.A.R.T. information. Is there any good software that works out there ? The smartmontools. Ported over from Linux. Commandline, which means you can script stuff. And free. Arno I tried those.. and they apparently also did not detect my HDDs or SMART info. And why should it if all else fails too. It's because of the same reason the others can't either: missing support in the driver to pass S.M.A.R.T. command to the drive and the S.M.A.R.T. data to the application. Then it is an OS issue. Babblebot, utterly clueless as always If the OS can access the disk, then the smartmontools can report the status. Try again, you moron babblebot. Arno |
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S.M.A.R.T. Software Monitoring Problem
"Arno Wagner" wrote in message
Previously Arno Wagner wrote: Previously Nick wrote: On Apr 9, 8:37 am, Arno Wagner wrote: Previously Nick wrote: Dear all, I've been trying to find a software to monitor my HDDs with S.M.A.R.T. However, none of the softwares I tried can detect the S.M.A.R.T. information. I tried: - HDD Life - HD Tune - Sandra - Lavalys - PC Wizard... My config is is follows: - Motherboard: Gigabyte: GA-K8U-939 - SATA Controller: Silicon Image SiI 3114 SoftRaid 5 Controller - Windows XP Pro SP2 Sometimes the software detects the HDD, sometimes not. However, I can never read the S.M.A.R.T. information. Is there any good software that works out there ? The smartmontools. Ported over from Linux. Commandline, which means you can script stuff. And free. Arno I tried those.. and they apparently also did not detect my HDDs or SMART info. Then it is an OS issue. If the OS can access the disk, then the smartmontools can report the status. Hmm. Come to think of it, Ow! Stop that immediately. maybe the OS remaps these disks as SCSI disks? Then there is no interface functionality to query SMART. Still clueless, as always. Arno |
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S.M.A.R.T. Software Monitoring Problem
Arno Wagner wrote:
Previously Arno Wagner wrote: Previously Nick wrote: On Apr 9, 8:37 am, Arno Wagner wrote: ... The smartmontools. Ported over from Linux. Commandline, which means you can script stuff. And free. ... I tried those.. and they apparently also did not detect my HDDs or SMART info. Which error message does smartctl print? Then it is an OS issue. If the OS can access the disk, then the smartmontools can report the status. No, OS uses sector level read/write access to logical drive. But SMART support requires ATA pass through access to physical drive. Hmm. Come to think of it, maybe the OS remaps these disks as SCSI disks? ... Yes, this is the case for Windows drivers of RAID capable controllers. SCSI SMART and ATA SMART are not compatible. ... Then there is no interface functionality to query SMART. Not necessarily, ATA SMART ioctls are passed down to SCSI miniport. But I don't know any driver (except 3ware) implementing this. http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/#FAQ-RAID http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net...in-ata-as-scsi Christian |
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S.M.A.R.T. Software Monitoring Problem
Previously Christian Franke wrote:
Arno Wagner wrote: Previously Arno Wagner wrote: Previously Nick wrote: On Apr 9, 8:37 am, Arno Wagner wrote: ... The smartmontools. Ported over from Linux. Commandline, which means you can script stuff. And free. ... I tried those.. and they apparently also did not detect my HDDs or SMART info. Which error message does smartctl print? Then it is an OS issue. If the OS can access the disk, then the smartmontools can report the status. No, OS uses sector level read/write access to logical drive. But SMART support requires ATA pass through access to physical drive. You are right, of course. I meant, "if the OS can squery the disk metadata (serial, etc.) and it shows up as ATA disk...". Hmm. Come to think of it, maybe the OS remaps these disks as SCSI disks? ... Yes, this is the case for Windows drivers of RAID capable controllers. SCSI SMART and ATA SMART are not compatible. I know. ... Then there is no interface functionality to query SMART. Not necessarily, ATA SMART ioctls are passed down to SCSI miniport. But I don't know any driver (except 3ware) implementing this. I know one other: The Linux SATA layer treats SATA disks (and in very new kernels also ATA disks, I think) as SCSI. There is apparently an SCSI pass-through command for ATA commands, but it is pretty new and likely not widely available. The Linux kernel had it a few weeks after it was standardized, because the developers had been waiting for it. Arno |
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