Tvrtko A. Ursulin wrote:
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> 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

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> 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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