Re: Bug/Issue

Hey, no probs.

I was worried smartmon might have been left to drift
and wasn't maintained.

Would've been a tragedy for such a fantastic suit!

Also note I found another bug thing... I mentioned on
my post on Gentoo.

My IDE drives I can see the prgress of a test i kick
off.. I cant with SATA ones.. but i think it updates
the list on completion.

today at 3pm my drives are scheduled to check again.
No tricks this time.. I have just not configured them
to spin down. I have a feeling it will work.

Cheers. 

--- Bruce Allen <ballen <at> gravity.phys.uwm.edu> wrote:

> Jon: thanks for the report.
> 
> Tejun: what are your thoughts about this?  Should be
> fix be at the kernel 
> level or at the application level?  Did you recent
> libata changes already 
> address this?
> 
> Cheers,
>       Bruce
> 
> On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Jon Hardcastle wrote:
> 
> > I have discovered what i think is an issue with
> the
> > delay smartd allows before running a scheduled
> check
> > on a SPUN DOWN SATA DRIVE.
> >
> > I get a message telling me that the drive isn't
> > capable in the log barely 5 secs after it has
> tried to
> > do the test - not enough time for the drive to
> spin
> > up! I have confirmed this by tricking smartd and
> > making sure the drive is up. Works fine.
> >
> > Also I had previously seen problems with the 30min
> > checks where by my log is filled with 'ata soft
> reset
> > errors' when it tries to 'check' a spun down disk.
> > Stopping it checking if the drive is sleeping
> 'fixed'
> > this.
> >
> > Any comments?
> >
> > I have posted on Gentoo about this also...
> >
> >
> >
>
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4437926.html?sid=e8a8fdb5f0d9c8c847407559e9716713
> >
> > -----------------------
> > N: Jon Hardcastle
> > E: Jon <at> eHardcastle.com
> > 'The writing is on the wall...'
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> >
> >
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