Re: ATA warnings in dmesg

[Jon Escombe]

Aaron Gyes wrote:

> For the last few -mm releases (maybe longer, maybe it's in non-mm also)
> my dmesg is full of this:
>
> ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0xb0/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/47/00
> ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0xb0/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/47/00
> ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0xb0/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/47/00
> ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0xb0/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/47/00
>
> I've got a Western Digital Raptor 74GB, using sata-via on a K8T800 Pro.
> Should I be scared?
>
> Aaron Gyes
>  

I don't think you need to worry. Those messages are produced from the 
libata passthough code, whenever sense data has been requested...

0xb0 looks like a SMART command, so I would guess (haven't looked at 
-mm) that the ata ioctl handlers have been updated to request it.

Regards,
Jon.


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