# Smartctl & Hardware RAID **URL:** \ **Category:** Hardware\ **Created:** [24 August 2026 07:58 UTC](https://community.ipfire.org/t/smartctl-hardware-raid/16099 "2026-08-24T07:58:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pic18f2550](https://community.ipfire.org/user_avatar/community.ipfire.org/pic18f2550/32/16251_2.png) [@pic18f2550](https://community.ipfire.org/u/pic18f2550)\ **Post date:** [24 August 2026 07:58 UTC](https://community.ipfire.org/t/smartctl-hardware-raid/16099/1 "2026-08-24T07:58:09Z")
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](http://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. ---
**Author:** ![pscar13](https://community.ipfire.org/user_avatar/community.ipfire.org/pscar13/32/16558_2.png) [@pscar13](https://community.ipfire.org/u/pscar13)\ **Post date:** [24 August 2026 09:43 UTC](https://community.ipfire.org/t/smartctl-hardware-raid/16099/2 "2026-08-24T09:43:02Z")
I found this in the [smartctl man page][https://linux.die.net/man/8/smartctl:](https://linux.die.net/man/8/smartctl#:~:text=For%20HP%20Smart,below%2C%20as%20well.) `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. ---
**Author:** ![bonnietwin](https://community.ipfire.org/user_avatar/community.ipfire.org/bonnietwin/32/12350_2.png) [@bonnietwin](https://community.ipfire.org/u/bonnietwin)\ **Post date:** [24 August 2026 12:27 UTC](https://community.ipfire.org/t/smartctl-hardware-raid/16099/3 "2026-08-24T12:27:48Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![pic18f2550](https://community.ipfire.org/user_avatar/community.ipfire.org/pic18f2550/32/16251_2.png) [@pic18f2550](https://community.ipfire.org/u/pic18f2550)\ **Post date:** [24 August 2026 15:05 UTC](https://community.ipfire.org/t/smartctl-hardware-raid/16099/4 "2026-08-24T15:05:54Z")
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.