![]() | |||||||||||||
Messages in this thread |
>>> > >the following happens every time after bootup, tested with freshly built >>> > >2.6.18-rc1-mm2: >> > ..>>> > >ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 >>> > >ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error) >>> > >ata1: EH complete>> > ..>> > >> > Those are S.M.A.R.T. commands.>> > >> > Either your drive does not support S.M.A.R.T.,>> > or you have not enabled it it with smartctl> > > This drive model surely supports S.M.A.R.T. but maybe support in the > driver is still underway. I just did a > > # smartctl --device=ata --smart=on --offlineauto=off --saveauto=on -T permissive /dev/sdb > > and this is what I got:> > smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen > Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/> > === START OF ENABLE/DISABLE COMMANDS SECTION ===> SMART Enabled.> Error SMART Enable Auto-save failed: Input/output error > Smartctl: SMART Enable Attribute Autosave Failed.> > SMART Automatic Offline Testing Disabled. Okay. Most likely your drive doesn't support the autosave features. Just do "smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sdb" to see what it does support, and then change the system startup scripts to not issue any unsupported commands -- that'll get rid of those harmless boot time error messages. Cheers - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
| Last update: 2006-07-15 14:41 [from the cache] ©2003-2008 | |||||||||||||