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
