I rebooted and turned SMART off in the bios config. Got the same
errors. Then I installed (sic) smartmontools, rebooted and turned
SMART back on in the bios config. Still got the same errors.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/5/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Adam Rosi-Kessel</b> <<a href="mailto:adam@rosi-kessel.org">adam@rosi-kessel.org
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Have you tried turning off SMART entirely? The easiest way would be to just
<br>uninstall smartmontools for the time being.<br><br>Karl Sokol wrote:<br>> My system takes a long time to boot. I have two hard drives, a 250 gb<br>> sata (/dev/sda1) drive that I run windows on and a 40 gb (dev/hda1) ide
<br>> for Ubuntu.<br>><br>> [4294867.752000] ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x25/00 to SCSI<br>> SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x4/00/00<br>> [4294867.752000] ata1: status=0x25 { DeviceFault CorrectedError Error }<br>> [4294867.752000
] SCSI error : <0 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002<br>> [4294867.752000] sda: Current: sense key: Hardware Error<br>> [4294867.752000] Additional sense: No additional sense information<br>> [4294867.752000
] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 102<br>> [4294869.086000] ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x25/00 to SCSI<br>> SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x4/00/00<br>> [4294869.086000] ata1: status=0x25 { DeviceFault CorrectedError Error }
<br>> [4294869.086000] SCSI error : <0 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002<br>> [4294869.086000] sda: Current: sense key: Hardware Error<br>> [4294869.086000] Additional sense: No additional sense information
<br>><br>> My system runs more or less O.K. but it takes about 15 minutes to boot<br>> as it repeats endless pages of the above.<br>><br>> I can find very little on this. One response to a similar string of
<br>> errors <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Re:-ATA-warnings-in-dmesg-p1148642.html">http://www.nabble.com/Re:-ATA-warnings-in-dmesg-p1148642.html</a> was<br>> not terribly helpful.<br>><br>> "I don't think you need to worry. Those messages are produced from the
<br>> libata passthough code, whenever sense data has been requested...<br>><br>> 0xb0 looks like a SMART command, so I would guess (haven't looked at<br>> -mm) that the ata ioctl handlers have been updated to request it."
<br>><br>> Not much from Ubuntu forums either<br>> <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-76316.html">http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-76316.html</a><br>><br>> The windows drive mounts within linux with no problem.
<br>><br>> Should these errors be a concern? If not, is there a way to suppress<br>> them so that the machine boots faster?<br>><br>> Thanks<br>><br></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Grace and Peace,<br>Karl Sokol
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