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  1. Bug #106821
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 106821

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Brenden Bain (brendenbain) wrote :

I also have this problem on this kernel. I only have one SATA disk connected to a GA-K8NF-9 (nForce 4) Motherboard. I get the following error intermittently:

brenden@greig:~$ sudo smartctl -d ata /dev/sda -H
smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Error SMART Status command failed
Please get assistance from http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
Register values returned from SMART Status command are:
CMD=0x50
FR =0x00
NS =0x00
SC =0x1e
CL =0x0c
CH =0x86
SEL=0x00
A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.

The same command will work without error at other times.

This only started happening on the upgrade to Fiesty.