From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kt4My-0000tV-6t for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:53:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CF754E02EF; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:53:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7F4BE02EF for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:53:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id A98BA21CB68 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:53:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D29C21CB64 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:53:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [2001:638:605:eea0:219:66ff:fe86:ce12] (account wevah HELO energy.localnet) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.9) with ESMTPSA id 38243505 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:53:09 +0200 From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Smartd Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:53:06 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.90 (Linux/2.6.27.2r4; KDE/4.1.70; x86_64; ; ) References: <76740.50007.qm@web51307.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <76740.50007.qm@web51307.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810231953.06426.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V5.4 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 851b553f-4855-4824-a0ca-0b118171d0c8 X-Archives-Hash: ca9608509046334ba3d144bdc1da79b9 On Donnerstag 23 Oktober 2008, Jon Hardcastle wrote: > Probably not strictly a Gentoo issue, but as i am running Gentoo I'll see > if the collective knowledge here can help me! > > I have a strange problem with my server. All the hard drives go to sleep > after ~3hrs of inactivity. BUT if they happen to still be asleep when the > scheduled smart check takes place you can hear it 'spin up' and just before > you know the drive is 'up' smartd decides the drive isn't smart capable and > gives up. I get log entries in 'messages' and dmesg and also smartd emails > me to tell me the drive isn't smart capable. > > You get the same result if you do -a on a sleeping drive... it says the > drive isn't capable.. run it again.. and Bob's your uncle. Any clues? Can > you vary the time before it tries after a spin up? > > ----------------------- > N: Jon Hardcastle > E: Jon@eHardcastle.com > '..Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are > fearful.' ----------------------- I am not sure what your problem really is - but why don't you exclude the drivers in /etc/conf.d/smartd?