From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Scobie Subject: sata_nv error with smartctl access Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 09:59:28 +1300 Message-ID: <45F07930.6000102@sauce.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp.sauce.co.nz ([210.48.49.72]:54858 "EHLO smtp.sauce.co.nz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933315AbXCHU6D (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 15:58:03 -0500 Received: from [192.168.4.111] (unknown [192.168.4.111]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp22.sauce.co.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10A3428825B for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2007 09:57:57 +1300 (NZDT) Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Hi, This may already be addressed, but in case anyone is interested. Fedora Core 6 2.6.19-1.2911.6.5, NVIDIA MCP55 based board using sata_nv. When querying a drive using smartctl and SMART is not enabled on the drive, I get the following error: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata3.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error) ata3: EH complete ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata3.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error) ata3: EH complete ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata3.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error) ata3: EH complete ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata3.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error) ata3: EH complete ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata3.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error) ata3: EH complete ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata3.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error) ata3: EH complete SCSI device sdc: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) sdc: Write Protect is off sdc: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdc: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) sdc: Write Protect is off sdc: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back This does not seem to cause any problems and once SMART is enabled, there are no more errors. Regards, Richard