Richard Scobie wrote: > Hi, > > This may already be addressed, but in case anyone is interested. > > Fedora Core 6 2.6.19-1.2911.6.5, NVIDIA MCP55 based board using sata_nv. > > When querying a drive using smartctl and SMART is not enabled on the > drive, I get the following error: > > ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 > ata3.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error) > ata3: EH complete [--snip--] > This does not seem to cause any problems and once SMART is enabled, > there are no more errors. Yeah, that's just libata reporting that a command has failed, which is expected in your case. Maybe libata should shut up on passthru commands. Right, we're currently not honoring REQ_QUIET, but SG doesn't seem to support that flag either. Anyways, it's safe to ignore the messages. -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
