Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Jul 2007 19:32:49 -0500 (CDT) | From | Bruce Allen <> | Subject | SMART problems in 2.6.22 |
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Mark, David, Doug, Tejin, Alan, Jeff, LKML,
I'm afraid that there may be some problem with SMART + libata in the 2.6.22 kernel. An hour ago I discovered that I missed a month of correspondence (some LKML, some private) about this problem which Alan, Tejun, Jeff, Mark and others copied to me -- it was automatically shoved into one of my mailboxes by my mail client. Sorry about that. So I am trying to catch up to see if there is some real problem or not.
Here is a typical bug report that worries me: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.smartmontools/4712
Here is another similar report: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.smartmontools/4713
And another report: http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg358354.html
From some of the earlier threads that I missed (below) I have the impression that the problem may be a very simple one, namely that starting with 2.6.22 one needs to run a command to enable SMART when a box is first booted -- the kernel no longer does this as part of the init/setup of the disks. But that is NOT consistent with the first two reports above, which show 'SMART ENABLED'.
Here are some of the earlier threads that I completely missed:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0706.1/0849.html http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg164863.html
Before I go off half-cocked, could anyone shed some light on this? Is there a real problem here or just something dumb?
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