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.