Patch appears to fix this for me as well as bug 53475 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to libatasmart in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1143495
Title: udisks reporting input/output error that seems to be nonsense Status in ATA S.M.A.R.T. Disk Health Monitoring Library: Confirmed Status in abstraction for enumerating and managing block devices: Unknown Status in “libatasmart” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “udisks” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “udisks2” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: My syslog is full of entries that look like this: Mar 3 12:06:45 faldara udisksd[2630]: Error performing housekeeping for drive /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/WDC_WD360GD_00FNA0_WD_WMAH91337618: Error updating SMART data: sk_disk_smart_status: Input/output error (udisks-error-quark, 0) And opening the disks utility shows invalid smart data, and choosing to update the smart data also reports an I/O error. Using smartctl on the command line though says this disk is fine: root@faldara:~# smartctl -a /dev/sdc smartctl 5.43 2012-06-30 r3573 [x86_64-linux-3.8.0-7-generic] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-12 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Western Digital Raptor Device Model: WDC WD360GD-00FNA0 Serial Number: WD-WMAH91337618 Firmware Version: 35.06K35 User Capacity: 37,019,566,080 bytes [37.0 GB] Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 6 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is: Sun Mar 3 23:25:55 2013 EST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity was completed without error. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: ( 1572) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. No General Purpose Logging support. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 28) minutes. Conveyance self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 088 084 021 Pre-fail Always - 2100 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 095 095 040 Old_age Always - 5566 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 080 080 000 Old_age Always - 14706 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 095 095 000 Old_age Always - 5255 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 109 253 000 Old_age Always - 34 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0012 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0009 200 125 051 Pre-fail Offline - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 942 - # 2 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 232 - # 3 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 145 - # 4 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 62 - # 5 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 761 - # 6 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 562 - # 7 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 696 - # 8 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 192 - # 9 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 888 - SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. root@faldara:~# To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/libatasmart/+bug/1143495/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp