Raid Controller No SMART Adaptec

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linger

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So i have a supermicro AOC-USAS-S8iR with 6 ST3750640NS drives running on debian using the Adaptec Storage Manager software. The problem i'm having is that in the arcconf (part of the Adaptec Storage Manager) utility it reports the drives as only being capable of 1.5gb/s and Smart is not available for any of them. I have sent an email to supermicro, but they havent gotten back to me yet, so i was wondering if any of you guys have any ideas as to what i can do to hopefully fix these two problems.
Thanks
James
 
I dont suppose you took the little jumper off the back of it to enable 3.0 gbpsec speeds?
 
i didn't take any jumpers off. From what i got out of the manual on supermicro's website the only jumper there is has to do with being able to flash the card with new firmware. Do you know that there is a jumper on the back that will allow me to use it full speed, or are you just guessing? I ask just because i won't be able to get inside and check the card out until this weekend
 
linger said:
i didn't take any jumpers off. From what i got out of the manual on supermicro's website the only jumper there is has to do with being able to flash the card with new firmware. Do you know that there is a jumper on the back that will allow me to use it full speed, or are you just guessing? I ask just because i won't be able to get inside and check the card out until this weekend
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Im talking about on the harddrive. Some current gen sata2 drives will have a jumper that, by default, forces the drive to 1.5 gbp/s speeds, in order to access 3.0 gbps, you have to remove the jumper.
 
OH, no i have not done anything to the hard drives, so that is something i should definetly take a look at.
Thanks
 
Just checked a spare and there is a jumper that limits the speed. So now that i will be able to get fullspeed out of these things i still need to figure out why i can not get SMART enabled on them.
Also xenotype thanks for the advice, this is something i had heard about before, but just never remembered.
Thanks
 
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