Andrew Dunn wrote:

I am not, but this is quite interesting. What versions are affected? I
am in ubuntu 9.10.

To my knowledge, there is no smartmontools version safe for use on these 
LSI based controllers.

You may run smartctl commands a few times and get away with it, but 
eventually it will bite you.

Losing 14 drives on a 16 drive array as a result, is no fun...

Hopefully it will be fixed one day.

Regards,

Richard