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From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Cc: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>,
	"Linux-Kernel," <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: hdparm almost burned my SATA disk
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:50:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43540E9D.4090906@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6bffcb0e0510151705l67725fd3t@mail.gmail.com>

Michal Piotrowski wrote:
>
> debian:/home/michal# hdparm -tT /dev/sda
> 
> /dev/sda:
>  Timing cached reads:   3652 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1823.54 MB/sec
> HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate
> ioctl for device
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  174 MB in  3.01 seconds =  57.72 MB/sec
> HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate
> ioctl for device
> debian:/home/michal# hdparm -V
> hdparm v6.1
> debian:/home/michal# hdparm -I /dev/sda
> 
> /dev/sda:
>  HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
 >

Harmless.  100% harmless.

The "Inappropriate ioctl for device" messages are due to the incomplete
implementation of HDIO_DRIVE_CMD in libata.  No big deal.  Once the
passthru patches finally get released for real, I'll update hdparm to
not use the missing ioctl.

Cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-17 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-15 23:01 hdparm almost burned my SATA disk J.A. Magallon
2005-10-15 23:04 ` J.A. Magallon
2005-10-16  0:05   ` Michal Piotrowski
2005-10-17 20:50     ` Mark Lord [this message]
2005-10-17 20:48 ` Mark Lord

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