As of 2013, Martin's package is no more in the "PPA" cited in message #38. I tried to install libatasmart4 from packages.ubuntu.com/saucy/libatasmart4, but it doesn't fix the problem for me.
I'm on Debian 6.0, which doesn't have the updated package in repos (not in "unstable" repo, apparently). Where can I get the package, preferably the individual "raw" .deb file so to not cause repo conflicts? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to libatasmart in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/435190 Title: Disk wakes up every 30 minutes and produces errors on dmesg Status in ATA S.M.A.R.T. Disk Health Monitoring Library: Fix Released Status in “libatasmart” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “libatasmart” package in Fedora: Fix Released Bug description: Hi. I'm trying to make a hard disk drive that's only used for backups stay in standby but there is something that is spinning the drive up every 30 minutes (exactly) or whenever I login to Gnome. The drive stays awake for a few seconds and then gets spun down again (even though I set hdparm -S 12 (1 minute)). I can hear this perfectly because it's a pretty noisy drive: Maxtor 6L300R0 Further more, every time the drive is spun up I get the following messages in dmesg: [189046.000060] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen [189046.000075] ata1.00: cmd b0/d1:01:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 pio 512 in [189046.000077] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) [189046.000082] ata1.00: status: { DRDY } [189046.448025] ata1: soft resetting link [189046.629893] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 [189046.629927] ata1: EH complete [190844.988581] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen [190844.988595] ata1.00: cmd b0/d1:01:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 pio 512 in [190844.988597] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) [190844.988603] ata1.00: status: { DRDY } [190846.444029] ata1: soft resetting link [190846.625872] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 [190846.625904] ata1: EH complete As you can see, this shows two occurrences of the problem, and they're ~ 1800 seconds (30 minutes) apart: 190844.988581-189046.000060 = 1798.988521 I thought it could be smartd but I disabled smartd and the problem persists. System details: Ubuntu karmic (development branch) 9.10 fully updated today. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/libatasmart/+bug/435190/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
