With the launch of our new Series 6 controllers, there is a significant change to the underlying hardware architecture over our Series 5 controllers. These changes require an updated driver, so the existing Adaptec AACRAID driver that has been inbox for years, will not load for a Series 6 controller. In an effort to clarify [...]

Hi folks, in the last few days I have come across an issue running smartmontools-5.38 with the series 2, 5 and 5Z controllers on firmware 17380 onwards with SATA drives. Just a bit of background .. By default (configurable using the expose_physicals module options parameter), the aacraid driver exposes the physical disks attached to the [...]

Anssi asked :-  Is there any way to get the full SMART info from a SATA harddisk connected to Adaptec 21610SA RAID adapter? The usual “smartctl -a /dev/sdX” command fails with aacraid driver. Hi Anssi, thanks for this question, I’ve been meaning to post some information on this as its a question I’ve had from [...]