From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: libata errors with smartctl on 2.6.24, WD3200AAKS and nVidia AHCI Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 16:29:18 +0900 Message-ID: <482A94CE.5060705@gmail.com> References: <200804092130.07149.tvrtko@ursulin.net> <200804150721.17337.tvrtko@ursulin.net> <482A7C2C.6040302@gmail.com> <200805140758.53407.tvrtko@ursulin.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.177]:53839 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752342AbYENH31 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2008 03:29:27 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id j37so4621560waf.23 for ; Wed, 14 May 2008 00:29:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200805140758.53407.tvrtko@ursulin.net> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: "Tvrtko A. Ursulin" Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bruce Allen Tvrtko A. Ursulin wrote: > On Wednesday 14 May 2008 06:44:12 Tejun Heo wrote: >> Tvrtko A. Ursulin wrote: >>> On Tuesday 15 April 2008 04:10:57 Tejun Heo wrote: >>>> Tvrtko A. Ursulin wrote: >>>>> On Sunday 13 April 2008 04:11:15 Tejun Heo wrote: >>>>>> Is auto spindown configured for the drive? >>>>> I don't think so - it's a 3.5" drive with no special PM features - but >>>>> how to tell? >>>> Hmm... Can you please post the result of "smartctl --version" and >>>> "smartctl -a > out 2>&1" and dmesg after the smartctl command? >>> Yep, pasted and attached below. dmesg is 67k, hope list is happy with >>> that. >> Thanks for the data. Nothing really stands out tho. It looks like the >> drive just doesn't like SMART commands 0xda and 0xd1. 0xda being a >> mandatory non-data command, it failing due to driver problem is unlikely. >> >> Can you please post the result of "hdparm -I /dev/sda" and "lspci -nn"? > > Of course: > > root@sol:~# hdparm -I /dev/sda > > /dev/sda: > > ATA device, with non-removable media > Model Number: WDC WD3200AAKS-00VYA0 > Serial Number: WD-WCARW0059893 > Firmware Revision: 12.01B02 > 00:0e.0 SATA controller [0106]: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7100/nForce 630i [10de:07f4] (rev a2) Hmmm.. WD3200 w/ nv ahci. WD3200 having trouble with smart commands is unlikely. Is it possible for you try different drive on the controller and see whether smartctl works on it? Thanks. -- tejun