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. -- Alexandre