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libatasmart package

  1. Bug #435190
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 435190

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In , Zeuthen (zeuthen) wrote :

We don't. We specifically use libatasmart API to check if the disk is asleep before attempting retrieving SMART data from it. This works fine for most disks but some disks are broken insofar that checking if they are asleep wakes up the disk. Yes, priceless isn't it?

So this is either a hardware bug (most likely) or a libatatasmart bug (less likely). I'm saying the more is more likely because of the 8 external disks that I own, only one exhibits the behavior your bug is about.

Anyway, not a DeviceKit-disks bug.