Sata Harddisk gives warnings on boot witch end up with error (it works but it's slow)

tunez · 02-15-2008, 06:31 AM

I get the following warnings in /var/log/warn . And also these annoying outputs on boot .( It's not my boot drive) The disk it refers to is an external eSATA western digital 500GB vfat, witch doesn't support S.M.A.R.T error logging and long self tests of course , it is able only to give a short output about its condition to smartctl. Also if I try to disable the Read cache on this hard disk with hdparm -W 0 /dev/sda, at /intit.d/boot.local it is done but it's useless because the error ocures before boot.local is loaded I am afraid . What can I do? And is this thing dangerous for my data I stored on this hard drive (I get the same things even if I connect it to the other controller, ICH8 for ex. ). And one more thing I can't change the queue_depth in quefile:///sys/block/sda/device/queue_depth with the command :: $ echo 31 > /sys/block/sda/device/queue_depth as libata suggests in their FAQ to enable NCQ, the only value it accepts is 1 and not 31.Can I enable NCQ if it is supported or is there a way to stop it from messing with the DPO and FUA scsi functions with smartd (every time I play with smartd I the disk is not detected at the end, so I don;t know how to use it correctly).All my disks are detected as scsi, maybe because i did the stupid thing to have AHCI function on when I did the installation-I don't know anymore.?should i just give the option with hdparm -W... to disable cashe on boot.local and leave it there? Thanks in advance for your time.

Device: /dev/sda, appears to lack SMART Error log; disabling -l error (override with -T permissive Directive)
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp smartd[4196]: Device: /dev/sda, is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp smartd[4196]: Device: /dev/sdb, opened
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB)
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00

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System

pensuse 10.3 x86_64
intel arch 3.2Ghz
ICH8 (82801) intel controller and
Jmicron 20360/20363 AHCI-satacontroller under 965P intel chipset
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/var/log/warn:

Feb 13 10:55:43 sharp kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x780100 action 0x2
Feb 13 10:55:43 sharp kernel: ata1.00: irq_stat 0x08000000
Feb 13 10:55:43 sharp kernel: ata1.00: cmd 25/00:07:00:4c:38/00:00:3a:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 3584 in
Feb 13 10:55:43 sharp kernel: res 50/00:00:ff:4b:38/00:00:3a:00:00/e0 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
Feb 13 10:55:46 sharp ntpdate[3590]: can't find host
Feb 13 10:55:46 sharp ntpdate[3590]: can't find host
Feb 13 10:55:46 sharp ntpdate[3590]: can't find host
Feb 13 10:55:46 sharp ntpdate[3590]: no servers can be used, exiting
Feb 13 10:55:46 sharp kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x780100 action 0x2
Feb 13 10:55:46 sharp kernel: ata1.00: irq_stat 0x08000000
Feb 13 10:55:46 sharp kernel: ata1.00: cmd 25/00:07:30:4c:38/00:00:3a:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 3584 in
Feb 13 10:55:46 sharp kernel: res 50/00:00:2f:4c:38/00:00:3a:00:00/e0 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
Feb 13 10:55:57 sharp automount[4040]: master_read_master: no mounts in table
Feb 13 10:56:04 sharp smartd[4196]: Problem creating device name scan list
Feb 13 10:56:04 sharp kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x780100 action 0x2
Feb 13 10:56:04 sharp kernel: ata1.00: irq_stat 0x08000000
Feb 13 10:56:04 sharp kernel: ata1.00: cmd ec/00:01:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 512 in
Feb 13 10:56:04 sharp kernel: res 50/00:00:b6:4a:38/00:00:3a:00:00/e0 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
Feb 13 10:56:04 sharp SuSEfirewall2: Warning: no default firewall zone defined, assuming 'ext'
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x180000 action 0x0
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: ata1.00: irq_stat 0x48000000
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: ata1.00: cmd b0/d1:01:01:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 512 in
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: res 51/04:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x1 (device error)
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x180000 action 0x0
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: ata1.00: irq_stat 0x48000000
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: ata1.00: cmd b0/d5:01:06:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 512 in
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: res 51/04:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x1 (device error)
Feb 13 10:56:08 sharp kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x180000 action 0x0
Feb 13 10:56:08 sharp kernel: ata1.00: irq_stat 0x48000000
Feb 13 10:56:08 sharp kernel: ata1.00: cmd b0/d5:01:06:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 512 in
Feb 13 10:56:08 sharp kernel: res 51/04:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x1 (device error)

/var/log/messages:

Feb 13 10:55:38 sharp syslog-ng[2822]: syslog-ng version 1.6.12 starting
Feb 13 10:55:39 sharp firmware.sh[2841]: Cannot find firmware file 'intel-ucode/0f-04-03'
Feb 13 10:55:39 sharp firmware.sh[2836]: Cannot find firmware file 'intel-ucode/0f-04-03'
Feb 13 10:55:40 sharp SuSEfirewall2: Warning: ip6tables does not support state matching. Extended IPv6 support disabled.
Feb 13 10:55:40 sharp SuSEfirewall2: batch committing...
Feb 13 10:55:41 sharp SuSEfirewall2: Firewall rules set to CLOSE.
Feb 13 10:55:43 sharp kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Feb 13 10:55:43 sharp kernel: AppArmor: AppArmor initialized
Feb 13 10:55:43 sharp kernel: audit(1202892933.049:2): type=1505 info="AppArmor initialized" pid=2486
Feb 13 10:55:43 sharp kernel: IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14a
Feb 13 10:55:43 sharp kernel: it87: Found IT8718F chip at 0x290, revision 2
Feb 13 10:55:43 sharp kernel: it87: in3 is VCC (+5V)
Feb 13 10:55:43 sharp kernel: ip6_tables: © 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
Feb 13 10:55:43 sharp kernel: ip_tables: © 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
Feb 13 10:55:43 sharp kernel: Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
Feb 13 10:55:43 sharp kernel: nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (8192 buckets, 65536 max)
Feb 13 10:55:43 sharp kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x780100 action 0x2
Feb 13 10:55:43 sharp kernel: ata1.00: irq_stat 0x08000000
Feb 13 10:55:43 sharp kernel: ata1.00: cmd 25/00:07:00:4c:38/00:00:3a:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 3584 in
Feb 13 10:55:43 sharp kernel: res 50/00:00:ff:4b:38/00:00:3a:00:00/e0 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
Feb 13 10:55:43 sharp kernel: ata1: hard resetting link
Feb 13 10:55:44 sharp kernel: ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
Feb 13 10:55:44 sharp kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
Feb 13 10:55:44 sharp kernel: ata1: EH complete
Feb 13 10:55:45 sharp ifup: lo
Feb 13 10:55:45 sharp ifup: lo
Feb 13 10:55:45 sharp ifup: IP address:
Feb 13 10:55:45 sharp ifup:
Feb 13 10:55:46 sharp kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB)
Feb 13 10:55:46 sharp kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Feb 13 10:55:46 sharp kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
Feb 13 10:55:46 sharp kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Feb 13 10:55:46 sharp kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x780100 action 0x2
Feb 13 10:55:46 sharp kernel: ata1.00: irq_stat 0x08000000
Feb 13 10:55:46 sharp kernel: ata1.00: cmd 25/00:07:30:4c:38/00:00:3a:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 3584 in
Feb 13 10:55:46 sharp kernel: res 50/00:00:2f:4c:38/00:00:3a:00:00/e0 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
Feb 13 10:55:46 sharp kernel: ata1: hard resetting link
Feb 13 10:55:46 sharp ifup: eth0 device: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Feb 13 10:55:46 sharp kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
Feb 13 10:55:46 sharp ifup: eth0
Feb 13 10:55:46 sharp ifup: IP address:
Feb 13 10:55:46 sharp ifup:
Feb 13 10:55:47 sharp kernel: ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
Feb 13 10:55:47 sharp kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
Feb 13 10:55:47 sharp kernel: ata1: EH complete
Feb 13 10:55:49 sharp kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB)
Feb 13 10:55:49 sharp kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Feb 13 10:55:49 sharp kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
Feb 13 10:55:49 sharp kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Feb 13 10:55:54 sharp ntpdate[3708]: step time server offset 0.217073 sec
Feb 13 10:55:54 sharp SuSEfirewall2: /var/lock/SuSEfirewall2.booting exists which means system boot in progress, exit.
Feb 13 10:55:55 sharp auditd[3884]: Started dispatcher: /sbin/audispd pid: 3886
Feb 13 10:55:55 sharp kernel: audit(1202892955.419:3): audit_pid=3884 old=0 by auid=4294967295
Feb 13 10:55:55 sharp auditd[3884]: Init complete, auditd 1.5.5 listening for events (startup state disable)
Feb 13 10:55:55 sharp audispd[3886]: listening on /var/run/audit_events
Feb 13 10:55:55 sharp avahi-daemon[3899]: Found user 'avahi' (UID 103) and group 'avahi' (GID 105).
Feb 13 10:55:55 sharp avahi-daemon[3899]: Successfully dropped root privileges.
Feb 13 10:55:55 sharp avahi-daemon[3899]: avahi-daemon 0.6.20 starting up.
Feb 13 10:55:55 sharp avahi-daemon[3899]: Loading service file /etc/avahi/services/sftp-ssh.service.
Feb 13 10:55:55 sharp avahi-daemon[3899]: Loading service file /etc/avahi/services/ssh.service.
Feb 13 10:55:55 sharp avahi-daemon[3899]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.4.
Feb 13 10:55:55 sharp avahi-daemon[3899]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv4 for mDNS.
Feb 13 10:55:55 sharp avahi-daemon[3899]: Network interface enumeration completed.
Feb 13 10:55:55 sharp avahi-daemon[3899]: Registering new address record for on eth0.IPv4.
Feb 13 10:55:55 sharp avahi-daemon[3899]: Registering HINFO record with values 'X86_64'/'LINUX'.
Feb 13 10:55:55 sharp avahi-dnsconfd[3910]: Successfully connected to Avahi daemon.
Feb 13 10:55:56 sharp sshd[4007]: Server listening onport 22.
Feb 13 10:55:57 sharp automount[4040]: master_read_master: no mounts in table
Feb 13 10:55:57 sharp avahi-daemon[3899]: Service "sharp" (/etc/avahi/services/ssh.service) successfully established.
Feb 13 10:55:57 sharp avahi-daemon[3899]: Service "SFTP File Transfer on sharp" (/etc/avahi/services/sftp-ssh.service) successfully established.
Feb 13 10:56:02 sharp ntpdate[3921]: step time server offset -0.001042 sec
Feb 13 10:56:03 sharp ntpd[4056]: ntpd -o Fri Sep 21 21:36:25 UTC 2007 (1)
Feb 13 10:56:03 sharp ntpd[4057]: precision = 1.000 usec
Feb 13 10:56:03 sharp ntpd[4057]: ntp_io: estimated max descriptors: 1024, initial socket boundary: 16
Feb 13 10:56:03 sharp ntpd[4057]: Listening on interface #0 wildcard, 0.0.0.0#123 Disabled
Feb 13 10:56:03 sharp ntpd[4057]: Listening on interface #1 lo, 127.0.0.1#123 Enabled
Feb 13 10:56:03 sharp ntpd[4057]: Listening on interface #2 eth0, 192.168.1.4#123 Enabled
Feb 13 10:56:03 sharp ntpd[4057]: kernel time sync status 0040
Feb 13 10:56:03 sharp ntpd[4057]: frequency initialized -30.706 PPM from /var/lib/ntp/drift/ntp.drift
Feb 13 10:56:04 sharp /usr/sbin/cron[4192]: (CRON) STARTUP (V5.0)
Feb 13 10:56:04 sharp smartd[4196]: smartd version 5.37 [x86_64-suse-linux-gnu] Copyright © 2002-6 Bruce Allen
Feb 13 10:56:04 sharp smartd[4196]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf
Feb 13 10:56:04 sharp smartd[4196]: Drive: DEVICESCAN, implied '-a' Directive on line 27 of file /etc/smartd.conf
Feb 13 10:56:04 sharp smartd[4196]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf was parsed, found DEVICESCAN, scanning devices
Feb 13 10:56:04 sharp smartd[4196]: Problem creating device name scan list
Feb 13 10:56:04 sharp smartd[4196]: Device: /dev/sda, opened
Feb 13 10:56:04 sharp kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x780100 action 0x2
Feb 13 10:56:04 sharp kernel: ata1.00: irq_stat 0x08000000
Feb 13 10:56:04 sharp kernel: ata1.00: cmd ec/00:01:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 512 in
Feb 13 10:56:04 sharp kernel: res 50/00:00:b6:4a:38/00:00:3a:00:00/e0 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
Feb 13 10:56:04 sharp kernel: ata1: hard resetting link
Feb 13 10:56:04 sharp SuSEfirewall2: Setting up rules from /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 ...
Feb 13 10:56:04 sharp SuSEfirewall2: Warning: no default firewall zone defined, assuming 'ext'
Feb 13 10:56:04 sharp SuSEfirewall2: batch committing...
Feb 13 10:56:04 sharp SuSEfirewall2: Firewall rules successfully set
Feb 13 10:56:04 sharp kernel: bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp kernel: ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp kernel: ata1: EH complete
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp smartd[4196]: Device /dev/sda: ATA disk detected behind SAT layer
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp smartd[4196]: Try adding '-d sat' to the device line in the smartd.conf file.
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB)
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp smartd[4196]: For example: '/dev/sda -a -d sat'
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp smartd[4196]: Device: /dev/sdb, opened
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp smartd[4196]: Device /dev/sdb: ATA disk detected behind SAT layer
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp smartd[4196]: Try adding '-d sat' to the device line in the smartd.conf file.
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp smartd[4196]: For example: '/dev/sdb -a -d sat'
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp smartd[4196]: Device: /dev/sdc, opened
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp smartd[4196]: Device /dev/sdc: ATA disk detected behind SAT layer
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp smartd[4196]: Try adding '-d sat' to the device line in the smartd.conf file.
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp smartd[4196]: For example: '/dev/sdc -a -d sat'
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp smartd[4196]: Device: /dev/sdd, opened
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp smartd[4196]: Device /dev/sdd: ATA disk detected behind SAT layer
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp smartd[4196]: Try adding '-d sat' to the device line in the smartd.conf file.
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp smartd[4196]: For example: '/dev/sdd -a -d sat'
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp smartd[4196]: Device: /dev/sda, opened
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp smartd[4196]: Device: /dev/sda, not found in smartd database.
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x180000 action 0x0
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: ata1.00: irq_stat 0x48000000
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: ata1.00: cmd b0/d1:01:01:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 512 in
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: res 51/04:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x1 (device error)
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: ata1: EH complete
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp smartd[4196]: Device: /dev/sda, can't monitor Current Pending Sector count - no Attribute 197
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB)
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp smartd[4196]: Device: /dev/sda, can't monitor Offline Uncorrectable Sector count - no Attribute 198
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x180000 action 0x0
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: ata1.00: irq_stat 0x48000000
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: ata1.00: cmd b0/d5:01:06:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 512 in
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: res 51/04:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x1 (device error)
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: ata1: EH complete
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp smartd[4196]: Device: /dev/sda, appears to lack SMART Error log; disabling -l error (override with -T permissive Directive)
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp smartd[4196]: Device: /dev/sda, is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp smartd[4196]: Device: /dev/sdb, opened
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB)
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp smartd[4196]: Device: /dev/sdb, found in smartd database.
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp smartd[4196]: Device: /dev/sdb, is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp smartd[4196]: Device: /dev/sdc, opened
Feb 13 10:56:07 sharp smartd[4196]: Device: /dev/sdc, found in smartd database.
Feb 13 10:56:08 sharp smartd[4196]: Device: /dev/sdc, is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Feb 13 10:56:08 sharp smartd[4196]: Device: /dev/sdd, opened
Feb 13 10:56:08 sharp smartd[4196]: Device: /dev/sdd, found in smartd database.
Feb 13 10:56:08 sharp smartd[4196]: Device: /dev/sdd, is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Feb 13 10:56:08 sharp smartd[4196]: Monitoring 4 ATA and 0 SCSI devices
Feb 13 10:56:08 sharp kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x180000 action 0x0
Feb 13 10:56:08 sharp kernel: ata1.00: irq_stat 0x48000000
Feb 13 10:56:08 sharp kernel: ata1.00: cmd b0/d5:01:06:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 512 in
Feb 13 10:56:08 sharp kernel: res 51/04:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x1 (device error)
Feb 13 10:56:08 sharp kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
Feb 13 10:56:08 sharp kernel: ata1: EH complete
Feb 13 10:56:08 sharp kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB)
Feb 13 10:56:08 sharp kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Feb 13 10:56:08 sharp kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
Feb 13 10:56:08 sharp kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Feb 13 10:56:09 sharp smartd[4409]: smartd has fork()ed into background mode. New PID=4409.
Feb 13 10:59:44 sharp gconfd (sharp-4663): starting (version 2.20.0), pid 4663 user 'sharp'
Feb 13 10:59:44 sharp gconfd (sharp-4663): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0
Feb 13 10:59:44 sharp gconfd (sharp-4663): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/sharp/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 1
Feb 13 10:59:44 sharp gconfd (sharp-4663): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 2
Feb 13 10:59:44 sharp gconfd (sharp-4663): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.schemas" to a read-only configuration source at position 3
Feb 13 11:15:45 sharp sudo: sharp : TTY=pts/2 ; PWD=/home/sharp ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/opt/kde3/bin/kdesu_stub -
Feb 13 11:15:45 sharp sudo: sharp : TTY=pts/2 ; PWD=/home/sharp ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/opt/kde3/bin/kdesu_stub -

drive specs
sharp:~ # hdparm -I /dev/sda

/dev/sda:

ATA device, with non-removable media
Model Number: WD My Book ESOxford OEMF@J
Serial Number: WD-WCAS81367378
Firmware Revision: 012
Standards:
Used: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 1
Supported: 6 5 4
Configuration:
Logical max current
cylinders 16383 0
heads 16 0
sectors/track 63 0
--
LBA user addressable sectors: 268435455
LBA48 user addressable sectors: 976773168
device size with M = 1024*1024: 476940 MBytes
device size with M = 1000*1000: 500107 MBytes (500 GB)
Capabilities:
LBA, IORDY(cannot be disabled)
Standby timer values: spec'd by Vendor, with device specific minimum
R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 1 Current = 0
DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6
Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
Cycle time: no flow control=120ns IORDY flow control=120ns
Commands/features:
Enabled Supported:
* SMART feature set
* Power Management feature set
* Write cache
* 48-bit Address feature set
* Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE
* FLUSH_CACHE_EXT
* SMART self-test
* WRITE_{DMA|MULTIPLE}_FUA_EXT
* SATA-I signaling speed (1.5Gb/s)
* SATA-II signaling speed (3.0Gb/s)
Integrity word not set (found 0x0000, expected 0x3ea5)

unSpawn · 02-16-2008, 05:55 AM

Check the LKML for those error messages and you'll find it has to do with kernel SATA chipset support which improves with every new kernel version. Installing the latest version of smartd may help wrt those messages, check their changelog.

tunez · 02-16-2008, 06:51 AM

Thanks for your reply unSpawn!I am afraid you are right. Buy the way I have the latest smart(smartd) package 5.37. but also I don't know if a special configuration is required in my smartd.conf , because it keeps saying that:

Try adding '-d sat' to the device line in the smartd.conf file.
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp smartd[4196]: For example: '/dev/sdb -a -d sat'
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp smartd[4196]: Device: /dev/sdc, opened
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp smartd[4196]: Device /dev/sdc: ATA disk detected behind SAT layer
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp smartd[4196]: Try adding '-d sat' to the device line in the smartd.conf file.
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp smartd[4196]: For example: '/dev/sdc -a -d sat'
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp smartd[4196]: Device: /dev/sdd, opened
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp smartd[4196]: Device /dev/sdd: ATA disk detected behind SAT layer
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp smartd[4196]: Try adding '-d sat' to the device line in the smartd.conf file.
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp smartd[4196]: For example: '/dev/sdd -a -d sat'
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp smartd[4196]: Device: /dev/sda, opened
Feb 13 10:56:05 sharp smartd[4196]: Device: /dev/sda, not found in smartd database.

and I dont know how to configure it correctly because i am confused about the scsi operations that are performed from this disk and also I dont like the fact that all my hard disks have names in fstab like:scsi-SATA_WD_My_Book_WD-WCAS81367378-part1

actually it's not slow right know:
sharp:~ # hdparm -Tt /dev/sdd

/dev/sdd:
Timing cached reads: 2574 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1287.52 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 232 MB in 3.02 seconds = 76.77 MB/sec

Right now I have switched my bios to IDE everything and not AHCI or AHCI control mode and I have plug everything on ICH8 controller. I dont like the way jmicron behaves at start up. And after that all my disks are under ata_piix driver not ahci anymore. but the problem remains.Do you know how to conf smartd.conf for this specific hard disk?

unSpawn · 02-16-2008, 08:08 AM

If you can poll /dev/sdb for info adding "-a -d sat" on the commandline then it's just adding that to the /dev/sdb line in your /etc/smartd.conf.

tunez · 02-16-2008, 09:05 AM

Ok! I did that, no change on the output.the device is not in the smartctl database, maybe that's why I get all these errors Emask and not because I have a problem.As for the NCQ this drive does nto support it. And in general it's an AHCI function as I see and due to the new SG_IO (libata - hdparm) any of these commands it's enabled by default if it is available(so I disabled it to all devices(by ide mode), I don't see something special with this featue).Af course I don't know why it keeps playing with FUA and DPO bullshit scsi stuff at boot. Thanks for your help!.