Cheers,
Andre Hedrick
CTO ASL, Inc.
Linux ATA Development
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On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote:
>
> > This is an error that I am considering removing form the user's view.
> > For the very fact/reason you are pointing out; however, it becomse
> > more painful when performing error sorting.
>
> Another 'error' you may want to silence some time is the one
> that appears when you query SMART status of a recent IBM drive.
>
> hde: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hde: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
>
> This happens if the drive is SMART capable, but not SMART enabled,
> and you ask it if it can do SMART. Once you enable it, subsequent
> queries work without spitting out the error.
> (Unless you turn it off again)
>
> I'm not sure if this a quirk of these drives (I've not seen it happen
> on any other vendor), or the code.
>
> regards,
>
> Dave.
>
> --
> | Dave Jones. http://www.suse.de/~davej
> | SuSE Labs
>
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