Re: kern/42552: smartd reports "not capable of SMART self-check"

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/42552; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: kern-bug-people%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/42552: smartd reports "not capable of SMART self-check"
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 17:32:39 +0100

 On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 09:25:01AM +0000, leo%marco.de@localhost wrote:
 >      Two days ago I installed smartmontools on my system. Now I'm getting
 >              Dec 31 08:26:24 zork smartd[5883]: Device: /dev/wd2d, not 
 > capable of SMART self-check 
 >              Dec 31 08:26:25 zork smartd[5883]: Device: /dev/wd2d, failed to 
 > read SMART Attribute Data 
 >              Dec 31 08:26:26 zork smartd[5883]: Device: /dev/wd2d, Read 
 > SMART Self Test Log Failed 
 >      reports from smartd, while smartctl doesn't show any problems.
 >      Using google I found, that linux users had a similar problem two years
 >      ago. It was caused by a kernel bug. Maybe we have a similar problem.
 >      See
 >              http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/20799/raw
 
 
 Are you seeing it only for wd2, or for all drives in the system ?
 
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