Re: [Bug 14583] SSD system stall, HSM Violation

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>]

On Monday 14 December 2009 09:10:00 pm bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14583
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> David Zeuthen <zeuthen@gmail.com> changed:
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> --- Comment #34 from David Zeuthen <zeuthen@gmail.com>  2009-12-14 20:09:58 ---
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> > I've been tracking a bug we've linked to this on Ubuntu, the most recent
> > replies received from affected users do indicate that it's the
> > devkit-disks-probe-ata-smart command that triggers the HSM Violations and death
> > of their SSD.
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> This program is a user of libatasmart. You want to look at
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>  http://git.0pointer.de/?p=libatasmart.git;a=summary

Slightly off-topic but WTF is this?  NIH smartmontools implementation?

Oh, I see.. 

	http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/being-smart.html

Why, oh, why...  smartmontools were working just fine and could have
been _easily_ been ported to C from C++ or enhanced into libsmartmon..

"Please note that I certainly don't plan to replace smartmontools.
 libatasmart will always implement only a subset of S.M.A.R.T. If you
 want the full set of functionality then please refer to smartmontools."

I somehow find it suspicious given how (only some) USB/ATA bridges
support were added later to *libata*smart project...

To make things worse Ubuntu is actually shipping it.  What a mess...

First my audio, now my disks.. :(
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz