On 9/17/07, Andrew Paprocki <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 9/17/07, Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Upgrading smartd should fix it. Which version are you using? > > smartmontools release 5.36 dated 2006/04/12 at 17:39:01 UTC > smartmontools configure arguments: '--prefix=/opt/smartmontools' > > I see a newer experimental 5.37 is out. I'll give it a go and see if > the trace goes away. Upgrading made it worse.. I now receive the same device errors as well as a slew of new "HSM violation" errors when smartd starts up: smartmontools release 5.37 dated 2006/12/20 at 20:37:59 UTC smartmontools configure arguments: '--prefix=/opt/smartmontools' ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata5.00: cmd b0/db:f8:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 126976 in res 50/00:f8:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x202 (HSM violation) ata5: soft resetting port ata5.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata5: EH complete # smartctl -i /dev/sda smartctl version 5.37 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 series Device Model: HDT722525DLA380 Serial Number: VDK41GT5F3S4JK Firmware Version: V44OA96A User Capacity: 250,059,350,016 bytes Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 7 ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 1 Local Time is: Mon Sep 17 15:25:29 2007 EDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled Thanks, -Andrew - 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