Re: ATA warnings in dmesg

From: Aaron Gyes
Date: Tue Oct 18 2005 - 08:46:02 EST


On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 08:13 +0100, Jon Escombe wrote:
> 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.

That would make sense. I have a daemon running that requests the
temperature via SMART every minute or so. Even still, this fills up my
entire dmesg after not a very long time, can I turn these messages off
somehow? If not, can you point me to where in the code I could kill a
printk?

Aaron Gyes

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