From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261529AbVFHSwk (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2005 14:52:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261527AbVFHSwk (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2005 14:52:40 -0400 Received: from cpu1185.adsl.bellglobal.com ([207.236.110.166]:25604 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261522AbVFHSwc (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2005 14:52:32 -0400 Message-ID: <42A73E6E.80808@rtr.ca> Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 14:52:30 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050420 Debian/1.7.7-2 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Stark Cc: Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: SMART support for libata References: <87y8g8r4y6.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> <41B7EFA3.8000007@pobox.com> <87br6g6ayr.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> In-Reply-To: <87br6g6ayr.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. You should be using "-y" (standby) instead of "-Y" (sleep). Cheers