Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751395AbVJRHP2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2005 03:15:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751415AbVJRHP2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2005 03:15:28 -0400 Received: from heisenberg.zen.co.uk ([212.23.3.141]:37012 "EHLO heisenberg.zen.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751395AbVJRHP2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2005 03:15:28 -0400 Message-ID: <4354A09C.8010202@dresco.co.uk> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 08:13:32 +0100 From: Jon Escombe User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aaron Gyes CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ATA warnings in dmesg References: <1129609999.10504.1.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1129609999.10504.1.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Hops: 1 X-Originating-Heisenberg-IP: [82.68.23.174] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1175 Lines: 34 Aaron Gyes wrote: >For the last few -mm releases (maybe longer, maybe it's in non-mm also) >my dmesg is full of this: > >ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0xb0/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/47/00 >ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0xb0/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/47/00 >ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0xb0/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/47/00 >ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0xb0/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/47/00 > >I've got a Western Digital Raptor 74GB, using sata-via on a K8T800 Pro. >Should I be scared? > >Aaron Gyes > > I don't think you need to worry. Those messages are produced from the libata passthough code, whenever sense data has been requested... 0xb0 looks like a SMART command, so I would guess (haven't looked at -mm) that the ata ioctl handlers have been updated to request it. Regards, Jon. ______________________________________________________________ Email via Mailtraq4Free from Enstar (www.mailtraqdirect.co.uk) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/