I am experiencing indications by smartd of disk errors on one of my four systems running Fedora Core 6. This has been reported and is documented in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214502 This problem only occurs on one system and then only running FC6 ... running FC5 on that system has no problems. The problem appears to be that smartd is attempting to access smart functions on the hard disks BEFORE it has enabled the disks for smart. If I manually enable smart with: smartctl -s on /dev/hda smartctl -d ata -s on /dev/sda smartctl -d ata -s on /dev/sdb then there are no problems. This problem only occurs on an ASUS A8N-E motherboard with an Athlon 64 4400+ dual processor (running either x86_64 or i386 versions of FC6). Has anyone noticed similar problems? It is difficult to get something fixed if I am the only one seeing it (even if I can reproduce the problem). What to look for in /var/log/messages ... something like: hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0 See the bz report for more info. -- Gene
