Hello,
I’ve moved my IPFire setup, and it’s now running on an old HP DL380 G5.
I ran into a few minor issues during the process.
One of them is that SMART is complaining.
"smartctl 7.5 2025-04-30 r5714 [x86_64-linux-6.18.32-ipfire] (IPFire 2.29)
Copyright (C) 2002-25, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
/dev/sda: requires option ‘-d cciss,N’
Please specify device type with the -d option.
Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary"
Does anyone have a fix for this?
Thanks.
I found this in the [smartctl man page]https://linux.die.net/man/8/smartctl:
For HP Smart Array RAID controllers, there are three currently supported drivers: cciss, hpsa, and hpahcisr. For disks accessed via the cciss driver the device nodes are of the form "/dev/cciss/c[0-9]d0". For disks accessed via the hpahcisr and hpsa drivers, the device nodes you need are "/dev/sg[0-9]*". ("lsscsi -g" is helpful in determining which scsi generic device node corresponds to which device.) Use the nodes corresponding to the RAID controllers, not the nodes corresponding to logical drives. See the -d option below, as well.
This use case is probably not being planned in IPFire.
the cciss node c0d0 is looked for during the install.
Can you show the output of lsblk as that will show if it identified and installed IPFire on c0d0 or on sda.
However looking at the media.cgi code there it only looks for the media nodes
sd, mmcblk, nvme, xvd, vd or md
and this doesn’t include c0d0 so smartmon would not show this even if c0d0 was installed.
Hallo,
lsblk lists a tree structure for /sda.
The only SAS drive in the server is connected to the internal RAID controller; there is no other option.
I cannot currently check if an old hardware RAID configuration is interfering.
The swap had to be done quickly, and the server was accessible over the weekend.
sudo smartctl --scan
→ no output
sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda -d scsi
→ hardware RAID controller information is displayed
sudo smartctl -i /dev/sda -d sat+megaraid,..
→ message: nothing found
sudo smartctl -H /dev/sda -d sat+megaraid,..
→ message: nothing found
The controller seems to be blocking everything.
After I added c0d0 to media.cgi, the SMART button disappeared.
It seems to be fine now, given that the values cannot be retrieved.
Thanks.