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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:19:59 +0000
Subject: Re: [TESTERS NEEDED]: Rewritten ESP driver
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From: "Adam Kropelin" <akropel1@rochester.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:35:56 -0400

> David Miller wrote:
> > Let's see what the heck smartd is sending to the device.  Please
> > reboot with smartd enabled and post the logs that get output
> > from this patch below applied, thanks.
> 
> Here it is:
 ...
> On one boot smartd actually started correctly and the system booted 
> without error. Here is the dump from that success case:
 ...

Thanks for the log.

Good news is that I can reproduce this locally.  I simply
start up a disk thrashing benchmark like "dbench 32" and
then run "smartd -d" in another window.

I'll post a patch to test once I can make it stop happening here.