Re: SMART support for libata

[Mark Lord]

Greg Stark wrote:
> getting really hot so I put it to sleep with "hdparm -Y".
>
> Now whenever smartd probes that drive my system freezes for a few seconds and
> I get this in my syslog:
>
> Jun  8 12:49:36 stark kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> Jun  8 12:49:36 stark kernel: 
> Jun  8 12:49:36 stark kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xe5

That is normal and expected behaviour.
A "sleeping" drive never responds to commands
until woken with a reset.

You should be using "-y" (standby) instead of "-Y" (sleep).

Cheers
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