Silicon Image is uncapable of S.M.A.R.T. // was: 2drives1cab(le)
SMART, Win32, 2 HDD via single SATA cable
UPD: even one HDD per cable reported to be broken
UPD2: it seems, Silicon Images SATA controlers are by design flawed in S.M.A.R.T. support. Forget of seeing temperature or health of you drives, if using Silicon Image controlers?UPD3: it seems flawed are Windows drivers. For Linux they make drivers, that work ok?
It also reported, it is irrelevant how many drives do share SATA port. They might have separate ports each. To have forged hardware monitoring enough is to have more than single HDD on the controller and run Windows. Drop Windows or have eparate controller for each disc :-(
Link 1: even with latest BIOS and drivers and simplistic connection Sil3132 still fails in SMART -
http://forum.ixbt.com/topic.cgi?id=11:39691#post6Link 2: Sil3132 works badly with Linux: makes PC freeze - comment by xspider at
http://www.fcenter.ru/products.shtml?eshop/act=h:a:0:0:a:a:a:0:a:1:30:r:1:1&oper=66289::s3132::
Link 3: Previous chip Sil3152 is reported to fail S.M.A.R.T. as well (..as bad?) -
http://forum.ixbt.com/topic.cgi?id=11:35147-16#480Link 4: SMART fails completely with Vista kernel -
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-EN/winservergen/thread/828b7764-e0c7-4c87-b7fc-b2a79b2b110bLink 5: somewhere around Link 3 (it is forum), i was told something like "in my Linux the drivers are recent and all works like a charm. Yes, SMART works too for both drives. It is your fault that you're using Windows". Arrogant person, but made me wish Windows could load Linux drivers, just like Linux can sometimes do with Windows drivers :-)
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