[OmniOS-discuss] Granular control of fma modules

Jason Cox cscoman at gmail.com
Thu Apr 17 17:58:03 UTC 2014


Sorry, I guess I jumped on the sent button a little to soon. I found
another thread that mentions the firmware update for the drives and how to
get it. I guess I will be updating my drives and re-enabling the module.


On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Jason Cox <cscoman at gmail.com> wrote:

> So I am running into this for a server I built for production. I unloaded
> the module, but I am guessing that this means I will not be able to tell
> when a drive is failed now outside of the normal way you can tell when a
> drive is having issues. Thinking long term here, what other options do I
> have? Just look at running smartmontool to monitor the drive I guess?
>
> Also is Seagate going to provide a way to update the firmware once it is
> available or do we have to try and RMA the drives or just swap them as they
> fail...  I love how the spec says they are good from 5-60c, but the
> firmware says 40c as the threshold temp.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Richard Elling <
> richard.elling at richardelling.com> wrote:
>
>> On Feb 18, 2014, at 4:17 PM, Anh Quach <anhquach at me.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Is it possible to tell the disk-transport FMA module to ignore
>> over-temperature on only a certain set of disks?
>>
>> In Solaris 11, yes this is possible. However, the open source community
>> has not implemented it
>> yet, AFAIK.
>>
>> >
>> > I’m doing testing with some Seagate Constellation.3’s that seem to run
>> hotter even at idle than the rest of my disks (39-44 C) and they are
>> continually getting flagged for over temp. I know I can disable to the temp
>> alert for that module but I don’t want to disable it for all disks, just
>> these new Seagates.
>>
>> You can unload disk-transport altogether as a workaround. The root cause
>> is a bug in
>> the Seagate firmware introduced in version 3 of their firmware. A fix is
>> in the works
>> for version 4, available RSN.
>>  — richard
>>
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>>
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> Jason Cox
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