Re: LibPATA code issues / 2.6.15.4

From: Justin Piszcz
Date: Wed Mar 01 2006 - 13:30:01 EST


On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Mark Lord wrote:

David Greaves wrote:

haze:/usr/src# smartctl -data -o off /dev/sdc
succeeds but gives me:

ata3: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
ata3: translated op=0x85 ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00
ata3: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
ata3: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
ata3: translated op=0x85 ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00
ata3: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
ata3: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
ata3: translated op=0x85 ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00
ata3: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
ata3: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }

"DriveStatusError" is "Command Aborted" in ac-speak.
From the man page for smartctl, we read:

-o VALUE Enables or disables SMART automatic offline test ...
Note that the SMART automatic offline test command is listed as "Obsolete"
in every
version of the ATA and ATA/ATAPI Specifications. It was originally part
of the
SFF-8035i Revision 2.0 specification, but was never part of any ATA
specification.

There's a chance that your drives simply do not fully support this feature,
and are rejecting attempts to use it.

By the way, the latest 2.6.16-rc5-git4 is available,
and has FUA turned off by default now. So it should
work with your drives, and *you* are expected to verify
that for us all now.

Cheers

-ml


When running that command, I get it too:

[4294684.510000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:06.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> I
RQ 17
[4294686.762000] process `syslogd' is using obsolete setsockopt SO_BSDCOMPAT
[4295292.736000] +++PATCH: Original kernel error:
[4295292.736000] ata3: translated op=0x85 ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/AS
CQ 0xb/00/00
[4295292.736000] +++PATCH: Mark Lord's extended verbosity patch:
[4295292.736000] ata3: translated op=0x85 cmd=0xb0 ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI
SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00
[4295292.736000] ata3: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[4295292.736000] ata3: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
[4295292.736000] +++PATCH: Original kernel error:
[4295292.736000] ata3: translated op=0x85 ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/AS
CQ 0xb/00/00
[4295292.736000] +++PATCH: Mark Lord's extended verbosity patch:
[4295292.736000] ata3: translated op=0x85 cmd=0xb0 ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI
SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00
[4295292.736000] ata3: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[4295292.736000] ata3: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
[4295292.736000] +++PATCH: Original kernel error:
[4295292.736000] ata3: translated op=0x85 ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/AS
CQ 0xb/00/00
[4295292.736000] +++PATCH: Mark Lord's extended verbosity patch:
[4295292.736000] ata3: translated op=0x85 cmd=0xb0 ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI
SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00
[4295292.736000] ata3: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[4295292.736000] ata3: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
[4295292.736000] +++PATCH: Original kernel error:
[4295292.736000] ata3: translated op=0x85 ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/AS
CQ 0xb/00/00
[4295292.736000] +++PATCH: Mark Lord's extended verbosity patch:
[4295292.736000] ata3: translated op=0x85 cmd=0xb0 ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI
SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00
[4295292.736000] ata3: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[4295292.736000] ata3: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
[4295292.736000] +++PATCH: Original kernel error:
[4295292.736000] ata3: translated op=0x85 ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/AS
CQ 0xb/00/00
[4295292.736000] +++PATCH: Mark Lord's extended verbosity patch:
[4295292.736000] ata3: translated op=0x85 cmd=0xb0 ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI
SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00
[4295292.736000] ata3: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[4295292.736000] ata3: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }


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