Eamonn Hamilton wrote: > Thanks for that, I checked the disks and sure enough they were in an > extended self test, I aborted that and it's all back to normal. > > the only problem, however, is that the system is already running version > 5.37 of the smartmontools package, which is the most recent as I > understand it? I don't really want to leave the system with it's disks > unmonitored, is there anything I can be doing to prevent this behaviour? Hmmm... That gotta be a different issue then. Cc'ing Bruce and quoting the original report. Eamonn Hamilton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm looking ta a Dell SC440 system for a friend, and it's giving HSM > > violations at startup. > > > > The system itself has an ICH7 chipset, with two seagate ST3160812AS > > drives attached along with a single ST3400832AS, running kernel 2.6.22 > > and the ata_piix driver. > > > > I'm guessing this isn't good :( > > > > Anybody gt any suggestions? > > > > The violations are : > > > > > > ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > > ata1.00: cmd b0/d2:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data > > 123392 in > > res 50/00:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x202 (HSM > > violation) -- 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
