On 8/26/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have had the same thing happen...and renenabling smart has fixed it. The
> resulting problem is that a reboot will make the drive forget it was
> enabled and you'll have to do it again. I haven't figure out what that
> means yet ;) Anyone know ????
> --
> Allie Daneman
> Allnix,LLC.
> http://www.allnix.net
>
> On Fri, August 26, 2005 10:04, Josh Tolley wrote:
> > One of my cronjobs, as suggested in the atactl manpage, is the
> > following, designed to email me if my soekris gets disk errors (it's a
> > disk-based install, not a flash-based one).
> >
> > 0 * * * * /sbin/atactl /dev/wd0c smartstatus > /dev/null
> >
> > Typically, and as expected, this doesn't end up sending me anything.
> > However this morning I got this in my inbox:
> >
> > atactl: ATA command timed out
> >
> > How worried should I be about this? I've run the same command again
> > today, without it reporting any errors, and this is the first error of
> > this kind I've seen. Google and archives didn't help much, and I'm not
> > a disk guru. Thanks in advance.
> >
> > -Josh
>
"Re"-enabling SMART? That's odd... it's already enabled, even after
the error reported this morning...
# atactl /dev/wd0c identify
Model: TOSHIBA MK3021GAS, Rev: GA124A, Serial #: 846E5279T
Device type: ATA, fixed
Cylinders: 16383, heads: 16, sec/track: 63, total sectors: 58605120
Device capabilities:
ATA standby timer values
IORDY operation
IORDY disabling
Device supports the following standards:
ATA-1 ATA-2 ATA-3 ATA-4 ATA-5
Master password revision code 0xfffe
Device supports the following command sets:
NOP command
READ BUFFER command
WRITE BUFFER command
Host Protected Area feature set
Read look-ahead
Write cache
Power Management feature set
Security Mode feature set
SMART feature set
Flush Cache command
Device Configuration Overlay feature set
Set Max security extension commands
Advanced Power Management feature set
SMART self-test
SMART error logging
Device has enabled the following command sets/features:
NOP command
READ BUFFER command
WRITE BUFFER command
Host Protected Area feature set
Read look-ahead
Write cache
Power Management feature set
SMART feature set
Flush Cache command
Device Configuration Overlay feature set
Advanced Power Management feature set
#
That being said, I also haven't seen the error show up again.
