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Subject: Re: repeatable IDE errors when using SMART
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
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On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 09:38, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Le mer 13/11/2002 ?  03:19, dean gaudet a ?crit:
> > i'm 99.99% certain that the use of smartctl and/or hddtemp is causing my
> > system to lose contact with the drives.  there's just been far too many
> > concidental errors of this sort:
> 
> Maybe I've seen something like this too, but I'm not sure.

Its certainly part of the code thats quite convoluted and would be the
ideal spot for a race. Really for the new IDE it wants testing versus
2.5.47-ac but getting 2.5.47 (ac or otherwise) to stay up for 8 hours is
challenging

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