From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750719AbWGRVNi (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:13:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750754AbWGRVNi (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:13:38 -0400 Received: from smtprelay01.ispgateway.de ([80.67.18.13]:22490 "EHLO smtprelay01.ispgateway.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750719AbWGRVNi (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:13:38 -0400 From: Ingo Oeser To: Mark Lord Subject: Re: FYI: strange libata EH lines in dmesg once after every bootup Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:13:28 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: Christian Trefzer , lkml References: <20060714230801.GA6645@zeus.uziel.local> <20060715004845.GA26446@zeus.uziel.local> <44B8E19E.2060904@rtr.ca> In-Reply-To: <44B8E19E.2060904@rtr.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607182313.30152.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Mark, On Saturday, 15. July 2006 14:37, Mark Lord wrote: > Okay. Most likely your drive doesn't support the autosave features. > > Just do "smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sdb" to see what it does support, > and then change the system startup scripts to not issue any unsupported > commands -- that'll get rid of those harmless boot time error messages. Would it be very difficult to tell the user "you issued unsupported command FOOBAR" and ignore it after a while? That way people can swap drives without reconfiguring smartscripts :-) Support either in smartctl or kernel would be ok. Whereever you see fit. Regards Ingo Oeser