Re: LibPATA code issues / 2.6.15.4

[Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>]

David Greaves wrote:
>
> haze:/usr/src# smartctl -data -o off /dev/sdc
> succeeds but gives me:
> 
> ata3: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
> ata3: translated op=0x85 ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00
> ata3: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> ata3: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> ata3: translated op=0x85 ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00
> ata3: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> ata3: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> ata3: translated op=0x85 ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00
> ata3: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> ata3: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }

"DriveStatusError" is "Command Aborted" in ac-speak.
 From the man page for smartctl, we read:

 >-o VALUE  Enables or disables SMART automatic offline test ...
 >Note that the SMART automatic offline test command is listed as "Obsolete" in every
 >version  of  the  ATA  and ATA/ATAPI Specifications.  It was originally part of the
 >SFF-8035i Revision 2.0 specification, but was never part of any ATA  specification.

There's a chance that your drives simply do not fully support this feature,
and are rejecting attempts to use it.

By the way, the latest 2.6.16-rc5-git4 is available,
and has FUA turned off by default now.  So it should
work with your drives, and *you* are expected to verify
that for us all now.

Cheers

-ml