Support LSi 9260 Raid Card on Windows

[Jared Hirst]

Hello,

We have many Servers running Server 2008+ on LSi Raid cards mainly 9260 with windows. I am wondering if and when you will support this and if we can donate to have it supported. We just get the below errors.

C:\Users\Administrator>smartctl -a sdb
smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [x86_64-w64-mingw32-2012r2] (sf-6.5-1)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor:               LSI
Product:              MegaSR
Revision:             1.0
User Capacity:        3,997,997,989,888 bytes [3.99 TB]
Logical block size:   512 bytes
Logical Unit id:      0x6000805e000000000100000000000000
Serial number:
Device type:          disk
Local Time is:        Mon Jun 06 22:29:29 2016 AUSEST
SMART support is:     Unavailable - device lacks SMART capability.

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
Current Drive Temperature:     0 C
Drive Trip Temperature:        0 C

Error Counter logging not supported

Device does not support Self Test logging

[Christian Franke]

Smartmontools supports CSMI for SATA (but not for SAS) devices. Some LSI drivers for Windows reportedly support CSMI pass-through, see ticket #276.

I'm not aware of any other ATA/SCSI pass-through functionality in the Windows drivers for LSI RAID controllers. Do you have any evidence that this exists (e.g. a vendor specific SMART tool) ?

The following is required to add support for this controller:

• Documentation and/or sample source code for the vendor specific pass-through functionality of the Windows driver. You might want to ask LSI support whether this is available.
• Access to a test machine with this controller.

[Christian Franke]

See ticket #856.