Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: SMART support for libata | From | Greg Stark <> | Date | 08 Jun 2005 23:08:59 -0400 |
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Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca> writes:
> Greg Stark wrote: > > > > getting really hot so I put it to sleep with "hdparm -Y". > > Now whenever smartd probes that drive my system freezes for a few seconds and > > I get this in my syslog: > > Jun 8 12:49:36 stark kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } > > Jun 8 12:49:36 stark kernel: Jun 8 12:49:36 stark kernel: ide: failed > > opcode was: 0xe5 > > That is normal and expected behaviour. > A "sleeping" drive never responds to commands > until woken with a reset.
I'm fine with errors and SMART failing to get any data.
It's the part about my entire computer freezing for 5-10s that doesn't seem kosher to me.
> You should be using "-y" (standby) instead of "-Y" (sleep).
I'll try that. But that's not going to make it spin up when it gets a SMART query is it?
-- greg
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