Hello, Jon. Please don't top-post. Jon Hardcastle wrote: > Looking at the logs there is seconds(as in 2~5) > literally between when the smartd kicks in on the sata > and when it decides the drive isn't capable. I can > tell you now it takes at least 10~15 seconds for the > drive to spin up.. probably longer. I also know that > when i run the test manually using smartctl it seems > to work, and that when the scheduled test is run when > the drives HAVENT spun down it also works. Okay, please do the following. 1. Post /var/log/boot.msg or dmesg result right after boot. 2. Post the result of "lspci -nnv" 3. Post the results of "hdparm -I /dev/sdX" where sdX is one of th problematic drives. 4. Run "hdparm -y /dev/sdX" to spin it down then issue SMART short test manually. If it fails the same way, post what smartd/smartctl says and the result of dmesg after the failure. Thanks. -- 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
