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List:       smartmontools-support
Subject:    Re: [smartmontools-support]smart won't enable anymore on drive
From:       Bruce Allen <ballen () gravity ! phys ! uwm ! edu>
Date:       2005-07-21 8:04:41
Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.21.0507210304110.11332-100000 () dirac ! phys ! uwm ! edu
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Albert,

Please try building the latest code from CVS and see if that works better.

Bruce

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Albert Pauw wrote:

> I had smart working on my drive (Fedora Core 3). I set it to a long test 
> and after that it the smart function is disabled and won't enable anymore:
> 
> smartctl version 5.33 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce 
> Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
> 
> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> Device Model:     Maxtor 6Y080P0
> Serial Number:    Y2PYEFJE
> Firmware Version: YAR41BW0
> User Capacity:    81,964,302,336 bytes
> Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
> ATA Version is:   7
> ATA Standard is:  ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 0
> Local Time is:    Tue Jul 19 20:30:05 2005 CEST
> SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
> SMART support is: Disabled
> 
> SMART Disabled. Use option -s with argument 'on' to enable it.
> 
> I tried to switch it on:
> [root@blue ~]# smartctl -s on /dev/hda
> smartctl version 5.33 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce 
> Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
> 
> === START OF ENABLE/DISABLE COMMANDS SECTION ===
> Error SMART Enable failed: Input/output error
> Smartctl: SMART Enable Failed.
> 
> A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more 
> '-T permissive' options.
> 
> I tried a warm and cold restart, to no avail.
> 
> What can I do to enable it again (it worked fine before, the drive had 
> no errors).
> This is what's been put in the messages log file:
> hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Albert
> 
> 
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