Re: SMART on SATA reporting errors? (was Re: regarding bug #5914 - fs corruption on SATA)

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

David Greaves wrote:
> This is a followon to the email below.
> 
> Basically, it seems some SMART commands produce unexpected errrors.
> 
> My Debian smartd config has "-o on" and "-S on" for every drive so it
> puts out lots of errors every time I boot.
> 
> I did a little investigation and I see that when I do:
> # smartctl -o on -data /dev/sdb
> smartctl version 5.34 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-5 Bruce Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
> 
> === START OF ENABLE/DISABLE COMMANDS SECTION ===
> Error SMART Disable Automatic Offline failed: Input/output error
> Smartctl: SMART Disable Automatic Offline Failed.
> 
> (Which is fine if the drive doesn't support it.)
> 
> I unexpectedly get this in dmesg:
> 
> ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00
> ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> ata2: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> ata2: no sense translation for status: 0x51
> ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04
> ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00
> ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> ata2: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00
> ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> ata2: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00
> ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> ata2: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }


All of your commands are missing "-d ata"

	Jeff