Hi, it's me again. On Aug 22 2009, Rogério Brito wrote: > In the mean time, I just issued the command with a freshly compiled > 2.6.31-rc7 and the problem persists: (...) Well, after some minutes (the time that I took to check my computer and to compose the previous message), I got two stack traces (attached to this message) and smartctl has just finished: ,---- | chagas:/tmp/sbin# ./smartctl -d usbcypress -a /dev/sda | smartctl 5.39 2009-08-20 r2876 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] (local build) | Copyright (C) 2002-9 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net | | === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === | Device Model: [No Information Found] | Serial Number: [No Information Found] | Firmware Version: [No Information Found] | Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] | ATA Version is: 1 | ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated | Local Time is: Sat Aug 22 16:13:12 2009 BRT | SMART is only available in ATA Version 3 Revision 3 or greater. | We will try to proceed in spite of this. | SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 82-83 don't show if SMART supported. | A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options. | chagas:/tmp/sbin# `---- Does this help (at least a bit), before I get usbmon working? I just wanted to report something that could be an extra data point. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : rbrito@{mackenzie,ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html