Re: Problem: IDE data corruption with VIA chipsets on2.4.20-19.8+others

[Roman Kagan]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 04:14:54AM +0000, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> Anyway, speaking about SMART, some "smartd" was interfering with
> normal operation on one of our systems and we saw similar "nasty"
> stuff on that system until I removed "smartd". 
> 
> Aug 10 06:54:25 falbala kernel: hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> Aug 10 06:54:25 falbala kernel: hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> Aug 10 06:54:25 falbala kernel: hdb: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> Aug 10 06:54:25 falbala kernel: hdb: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> Aug 10 07:24:25 falbala kernel: hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> Aug 10 07:24:25 falbala kernel: hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> Aug 10 07:24:25 falbala kernel: hdb: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> Aug 10 07:24:25 falbala kernel: hdb: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> Aug 10 08:24:25 falbala kernel: hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> Aug 10 08:24:25 falbala kernel: hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> Aug 10 08:24:25 falbala kernel: hdb: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> Aug 10 08:24:25 falbala kernel: hdb: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }

You probably have SMART disabled on those drives by BIOS, and smartd is
not smart enough to enable it before trying to use it so the drives
complain.  I had the same problem on my GigaByte mobo where the BIOS
setup didn't even provide an option to turn SMART on (like earlier Award
BIOSes did).

Check with smartctl -i /dev/hdX.  Enable with smartctl -e /dev/hdX
_before_ starting smartd.

Sorry for OT.

  Roman.
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