Re: LibPATA code issues / 2.6.17.3 (What is the next step?)

[Erik Mouw]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 11:10:59PM +0100, David Greaves wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> > Ar Maw, 2006-07-11 am 09:28 -0400, ysgrifennodd Justin Piszcz:
> >> Alan/Jeff/Mark,
> >>
> >> Is there anything else I can do to further troubleshoot this problem now 
> >> that we have the failed opcode(s)?  Again, there is never any corruption 
> >> on these drives, so it is more of an annoyance than anything else.
> > 
> > Nothing strikes me so far other than the data not making sense. Possibly
> > it will become clearer later if/when we see other examples.
> 
> For me it's SMART related.
> 
> smartctl -data -o on /dev/sda reliably gets a similar message.
> Justin - does this smartctl command trigger a message for you?

In that case SMART just isn't enabled. smartctl -d ata --smart=on
/dev/sda should make those messages go away.

Some BIOSes have a setting to enable/disable SMART, though the option
is usually badly documented (hey, what do you expect from BIOS
writers).


Erik

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