Change drive type to SCSI in UNRAID?

[bretzlaff]

Hello team,

 

I just built my first UnRaid Server.  I'm using 5.0 rc5.  I currently have everything running inside ESXI 5.0 and I'm using RDM to pass my drives (4 of them) before I move to a raid card I can use PCI-passthrough with.

 

My question is I'm getting these errors on the VM side which I had traced back to SMART commands which aren't supported for RDMs.  Also, running preclear I was getting errors.  I found if use the -D command to tell the script to not treat them as SATA drives the temperature works.  I know that VM ESXI is simulating SCSI interfaces for the drives.

 

Is there a setting / configuration to tell Unraid to use SCSI commands for disk temperatures?

 

Any help is appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Brad

[bretzlaff]

Update,

 

I updated my previous message, but I found a way to read temperatures and other smartctl commands was to use the -D command with preclear.  If I ran preclear with the -D (which does something with -d ata) the temperature works during preclear.

 

Is there a setting / configuration in unraid to have it use SCSI commands for smartctl?  i assume worse case would be to create a script that calls smartctl with the -d ata command and "hide" startctl.  Just didn't want to be jumping to that unless it's needed.

 

Thanks,

Brad

[dgaschk]

See here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=20672.0

[bretzlaff]

Great link -- I had a heck of a time finding words to search for.

 

Looks like I may pound out a script to do what I need until I buy a dedicated controller to pass through.

 

Now, to figure out creating a script - sounds like an activity for this weekend.