From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 21 02:08:15 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B95C106566B for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:08:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steven.samuel.cole@gmail.com) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B62C8FC1B for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:08:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steven.samuel.cole@gmail.com) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 24so1152227wfg.7 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:08:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=/QPZFq2PDWEHcgGuAudLun3c5OuXKxUfmo3gfUarYZQ=; b=mxgQWDjsEm6bPfMf/gL/F5j8hLtZ+WdHrqpkDx8EnR/+mlXH52vXzl6v+px8V2Ah/Z +ZMHpVuVj0zcRITvxHV0XZQE9UbzXrHkadFydzc4QFCPLAejwCo6u9T0wVlNrhDqx62e 2pnRX9NGL0la9cP98e8ZV4SySSJidsfS8Z6l8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Yfm5Tcp4yQxvZMvUY9+azZQpJ+38OO/2dOw8MABSpcGunzILMhBmYkhSWBKny6Otos zkWAXh1ll7SBkJwwEN2VC38Kp+VrnK11roT9efPF+Mkq26t/36J+wf7mLYWUci8NmWrB IUEAc1+N5hn+wDUUPxBeqQfKNG6jWuVlAHKlA= Received: by 10.142.245.6 with SMTP id s6mr2049446wfh.141.1214012354291; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:39:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.10.141? ( [125.238.246.179]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 32sm4070522wfa.8.2008.06.20.18.39.11 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:39:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <485C5B91.40801@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:38:25 +1200 From: Steven Samuel Cole User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: error message when starting smartd: FAILURE - SMART status=51 ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:08:15 -0000 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: port 0xd480-0xd487,0xd400-0xd403,0xd080-0xd087,0xd000-0xd003,0xcc00-0xcc0f mem 0xddeff400-0xddeff7ff irq 18 at device 10.0 on pci1 ... kernel: ata6: on atapci2 kernel: ata7: on atapci2 kernel: ata8: on atapci2 kernel: ata9: on atapci2 ... kernel: ad12: 476940MB at ata6-master SATA150 kernel: ad14: 476940MB at ata7-master SATA150 kernel: ad16: 476940MB at ata8-master SATA150 kernel: ad18: 476940MB 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 error=4 kernel: ad14: FAILURE - SMART status=51 error=4 kernel: ad16: FAILURE - SMART status=51 error=4 kernel: ad18: FAILURE - SMART status=51 error=4 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