Setup is vmware ESXi 5.1 with LSI HBA in passthrough and the disks is used in Solaris with ZFS.
I finaly got smartmontools running from Solaris.
Looked at how napp-it did it (install and config of smartmontools and the runtime parameters).
Don't know why previous attempts has faild me, but that's not important now. So tanks to napp-it.
I also installed napp-it to have a look and under disks - smartinfo, in the error column I've got the soft-errors (16, 17 and 19 on three disks).
I've not been running smartmontools 16-19 times on the disks.
This is commented as a known increment while running smartmontools, so, is this a bad thing or nothing to worry about?
The other thing, and as the topic is about - the smartmontools revealed that the firmware on my disks is old.
It's four Seagate barracuda disks, the two 3TB disks has firmware CC46 (the oldest firmware, there's four newer ones out there).
The two 2TB disks has the CC4C firmware.
Seagate provides a windows tool, and claim that no data will be lost if done right.
And a bootable tool as well.
Any experiences with these firmware updates, when FS is ZFS, and any data loss?
There's no changelog so I don't know what's fixed or not. (I do have a bad noise from one of the disks so a firmware update might be a good thing).
I guess I'll have to shut down the system and use the non-windows tools to flash new firmware to the disks.
Can I upgrade them all in one go or do I have to take them one at a time and reboot?
I finaly got smartmontools running from Solaris.
Looked at how napp-it did it (install and config of smartmontools and the runtime parameters).
Don't know why previous attempts has faild me, but that's not important now. So tanks to napp-it.
I also installed napp-it to have a look and under disks - smartinfo, in the error column I've got the soft-errors (16, 17 and 19 on three disks).
I've not been running smartmontools 16-19 times on the disks.
This is commented as a known increment while running smartmontools, so, is this a bad thing or nothing to worry about?
The other thing, and as the topic is about - the smartmontools revealed that the firmware on my disks is old.
It's four Seagate barracuda disks, the two 3TB disks has firmware CC46 (the oldest firmware, there's four newer ones out there).
The two 2TB disks has the CC4C firmware.
Seagate provides a windows tool, and claim that no data will be lost if done right.
And a bootable tool as well.
Any experiences with these firmware updates, when FS is ZFS, and any data loss?
There's no changelog so I don't know what's fixed or not. (I do have a bad noise from one of the disks so a firmware update might be a good thing).
I guess I'll have to shut down the system and use the non-windows tools to flash new firmware to the disks.
Can I upgrade them all in one go or do I have to take them one at a time and reboot?