[Fwd: F7: Howto monitoring a Hardware sata raid controller]

[Tim]

On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 12:36 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> I don't know if there's any sort of functionality like the drive
> scrubbing that 3ware cards have.  (They periodically read, reconstruct
> if necessary and rewrite all of the sectors on all of the drives,
> which prevents sectors from going bad silently.)  You can run a cron
> job that asks the drives in your RAID set to do online self fests;
> smartd may even support doing that automatically. 

As far as I can tell, you can get SMART to check drives, but it offers
nothing to fix them up.

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2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386

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