Tejun Heo wrote: > Tvrtko A. Ursulin wrote: >> On Wednesday 14 May 2008 08:58:56 Erik Inge Bolsø wrote: >>> The drive does say >>> >>> Enabled Supported: >>> SMART feature set >>> Security Mode feature set >>> * Power Management feature set >>> * Write cache >>> * Look-ahead >>> >>> ... so doesn't look like SMART is enabled on the drive. >>> >>> Does the problem go away if you do a >>> >>> smartctl -s on /dev/sda >>> >>> first? :) >> Indeed it does, shame on me for overseeing that small detail. :) > > Oh... shame on me too. :-) Why didn't smartctl notice that? In my experience it usually does report when SMART is disabled. Is the error not being properly reported back to userspace maybe? Tvrtko's original problem report has lots of uninitialized (or leaked?) data, and a lot of it looks like ASCII (for example his bogus RAW_VALUEs contain pieces of the model number). -jim -- 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
