"After upgrade from to karmic, once restart, I got a red message saying my disk is failing and have to be replaced, the exact message was:
DISK IS BEING USED OUTSIDE DESIGN PARAMETERS" But ... smartdisk IS enabled on this mini-9. # smartctl -a /dev/sda smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: STEC ATA DISK vS020.1.0 Serial Number: STECG51608A12r78IPkm Firmware Version: AD B602D User Capacity: 3,791,241,216 bytes Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 6 ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 3a Local Time is: Tue Jan 5 15:14:28 2010 EST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled Error SMART Values Read failed Smartctl: SMART Read Values failed. Error SMART Thresholds Read failed Smartctl: SMART Read Thresholds failed. === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity was never started. Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled. Total time to complete Offline data collection: ( 0) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x00) Offline data collection not supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0000) Automatic saving of SMART data is not implemented. Error logging capability: (0x00) Error logging NOT supported. No General Purpose Logging support. Warning: device does not support Error Logging Error SMART Error Log Read failed Smartctl: SMART Error Log Read Failed Warning: device does not support Self Test Logging Error SMART Error Self-Test Log Read failed Smartctl: SMART Self Test Log Read Failed Device does not support Selective Self Tests/Logging -- warning given about disk health due to smart not being enabled https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/454301 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs