From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161028AbWGOMhx (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Jul 2006 08:37:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161153AbWGOMhx (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Jul 2006 08:37:53 -0400 Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:46805 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161028AbWGOMhw (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Jul 2006 08:37:52 -0400 Message-ID: <44B8E19E.2060904@rtr.ca> Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 08:37:50 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christian Trefzer Cc: lkml Subject: Re: FYI: strange libata EH lines in dmesg once after every bootup References: <20060714230801.GA6645@zeus.uziel.local> <44B8350E.9070409@rtr.ca> <20060715004845.GA26446@zeus.uziel.local> In-Reply-To: <20060715004845.GA26446@zeus.uziel.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>> > >the following happens every time after bootup, tested with freshly built >>> > >2.6.18-rc1-mm2: >> > .. >>> > >ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 >>> > >ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error) >>> > >ata1: EH complete >> > .. >> > >> > Those are S.M.A.R.T. commands. >> > >> > Either your drive does not support S.M.A.R.T., >> > or you have not enabled it it with smartctl > > > This drive model surely supports S.M.A.R.T. but maybe support in the > driver is still underway. I just did a > > # smartctl --device=ata --smart=on --offlineauto=off --saveauto=on -T permissive /dev/sdb > > and this is what I got: > > smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen > Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ > > === START OF ENABLE/DISABLE COMMANDS SECTION === > SMART Enabled. > Error SMART Enable Auto-save failed: Input/output error > Smartctl: SMART Enable Attribute Autosave Failed. > > SMART Automatic Offline Testing Disabled. Okay. Most likely your drive doesn't support the autosave features. Just do "smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sdb" to see what it does support, and then change the system startup scripts to not issue any unsupported commands -- that'll get rid of those harmless boot time error messages. Cheers