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
