Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:38:25 +1200 From: Steven Samuel Cole <steven.samuel.cole@gmail.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: error message when starting smartd: FAILURE - SMART status=51 ... Message-ID: <485C5B91.40801@gmail.com>
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Hello, I see an error message every time I boot my AMD64 FreeBSD 7.0 system or when I restart smartd. These are the dmesg lines that seem relevant to the issue (shortened for clarity): kernel: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Fri Jun 6 22:06:44 NZST 2008 kernel: CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ (2611.86-MHz K8-class CPU) kernel: Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x60fb2 Stepping = 2 kernel: usable memory = 8576704512 (8179 MB) ... kernel: atapci2: <SiI SiI 3114 SATA150 controller> port 0xd480-0xd487,0xd400-0xd403,0xd080-0xd087,0xd000-0xd003,0xcc00-0xcc0f mem 0xddeff400-0xddeff7ff irq 18 at device 10.0 on pci1 ... kernel: ata6: <ATA channel 0> on atapci2 kernel: ata7: <ATA channel 1> on atapci2 kernel: ata8: <ATA channel 2> on atapci2 kernel: ata9: <ATA channel 3> on atapci2 ... kernel: ad12: 476940MB <Seagate ST3500320AS SD15> at ata6-master SATA150 kernel: ad14: 476940MB <Seagate ST3500320AS SD15> at ata7-master SATA150 kernel: ad16: 476940MB <Seagate ST3500320AS SD15> at ata8-master SATA150 kernel: ad18: 476940MB <Seagate ST3500320AS SD15> at ata9-master SATA150 I am happy to provide more info if that helps.# I am using the latest version of smartmontools (5.38). The actual error messages are: kernel: ad12: FAILURE - SMART status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED> kernel: ad14: FAILURE - SMART status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED> kernel: ad16: FAILURE - SMART status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED> kernel: ad18: FAILURE - SMART status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED> Apart from that, the disks seem to be working fine. I am running a ZFS pool on them and they perform great, no worries whatsoever; I am simply unsure what these error messages mean and if they should worry me. Also, the disks are SATA300, the controller supports SATA150 only; there is a jumper on the disks that limits them to SATA150 which I removed. Could that be relevant ? Thank you very much for your attention. Kind regards, Steve
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