Re: libata errors with smartctl on 2.6.24, WD3200AAKS and nVidiaAHCI

[Tejun Heo]

Tvrtko A. Ursulin wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 May 2008 06:44:12 Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Tvrtko A. Ursulin wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 15 April 2008 04:10:57 Tejun Heo wrote:
> > > > Tvrtko A. Ursulin wrote:
> > > > > On Sunday 13 April 2008 04:11:15 Tejun Heo wrote:
> > > > > > Is auto spindown configured for the drive?
> > > > > I don't think so - it's a 3.5" drive with no special PM features - but
> > > > > how to tell?
> > > > Hmm... Can you please post the result of "smartctl --version" and
> > > > "smartctl -a > out 2>&1" and dmesg after the smartctl command?
> > > Yep, pasted and attached below. dmesg is 67k, hope list is happy with
> > > that.
> > Thanks for the data.  Nothing really stands out tho.  It looks like the
> > drive just doesn't like SMART commands 0xda and 0xd1.  0xda being a
> > mandatory non-data command, it failing due to driver problem is unlikely.
> >
> > Can you please post the result of "hdparm -I /dev/sda" and "lspci -nn"?
>
> Of course:
>
> root@sol:~# hdparm -I /dev/sda
>
> /dev/sda:
>
> ATA device, with non-removable media
>         Model Number:       WDC WD3200AAKS-00VYA0
>         Serial Number:      WD-WCARW0059893
>         Firmware Revision:  12.01B02

> 00:0e.0 SATA controller [0106]: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7100/nForce 630i [10de:07f4] (rev a2)

Hmmm.. WD3200 w/ nv ahci.  WD3200 having trouble with smart commands is 
unlikely.  Is it possible for you try different drive on the controller 
and see whether smartctl works on it?

Thanks.

--
tejun
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