Re: FYI: strange libata EH lines in dmesg once after every bootup

[Ingo Oeser]

Hi Mark,

On Saturday, 15. July 2006 14:37, Mark Lord wrote:
> Okay.  Most likely your drive doesn't support the autosave features.
> 
> Just do "smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sdb" to see what it does support,
> and then change the system startup scripts to not issue any unsupported
> commands -- that'll get rid of those harmless boot time error messages.

Would it be very difficult to tell the user 
"you issued unsupported command FOOBAR"
and ignore it after a while?

That way people can swap drives without reconfiguring smartscripts :-)

Support either in smartctl or kernel would be ok. Whereever you see fit.

Regards

Ingo Oeser
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