From: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
To: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SMART support for libata
Date: 08 Jun 2005 23:08:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873brs5ir8.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42A73E6E.80808@rtr.ca>
Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca> writes:
> Greg Stark wrote:
> >
> > getting really hot so I put it to sleep with "hdparm -Y".
> > Now whenever smartd probes that drive my system freezes for a few seconds and
> > I get this in my syslog:
> > Jun 8 12:49:36 stark kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> > Jun 8 12:49:36 stark kernel: Jun 8 12:49:36 stark kernel: ide: failed
> > opcode was: 0xe5
>
> That is normal and expected behaviour.
> A "sleeping" drive never responds to commands
> until woken with a reset.
I'm fine with errors and SMART failing to get any data.
It's the part about my entire computer freezing for 5-10s
that doesn't seem kosher to me.
> You should be using "-y" (standby) instead of "-Y" (sleep).
I'll try that. But that's not going to make it spin up when it gets a SMART
query is it?
--
greg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-09 3:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <87y8g8r4y6.fsf@stark.xeocode.com>
2004-12-09 6:24 ` SMART support for libata Jeff Garzik
2005-06-08 16:59 ` Greg Stark
2005-06-08 18:52 ` Mark Lord
2005-06-09 3:08 ` Greg Stark [this message]
2005-06-09 15:25 ` Mark Lord
2005-06-09 18:13 ` Greg Stark
2005-06-10 6:38 ` Jens Axboe
2005-06-10 15:35 ` Greg Stark
2005-06-11 19:25 ` Adrian Bunk
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