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Using smartmontools-5.38 with series 2/5/5Z controllers with firmware 17380 onwards

Friday, July 24th, 2009
Posted in General

Hi folks, in the last few days I have come across an issue running smartmontools-5.38 with the series 2, 5 and 5Z controllers on firmware 17380 onwards with SATA drives.
Just a bit of background ..
By default (configurable using the expose_physicals module options parameter), the aacraid driver exposes the physical disks attached to the controller to […]

Improving support for Debian based OS’s

Friday, July 24th, 2009
Posted in General

Hi folks, I have had a number of questions both from the blog and also directly from customers regarding better support for Debian based OS’s.
Thanks to Vincent for his recent comment ..
Vincent wrote :-
“I’d really like to see some official support for Debian based systems. All the supported systems have a common root. I’d imagine […]