On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 11:04:03AM -0600, 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).
> 
> 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

is your disk in standby mode? the 'smartstatus' command seems to time-out if
the disk is in standby mode. 


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Alexandre

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