I found a possibly easier work around: after I disabled SMART support on the device, I can safely run devkit-disks-probe-ata-smart (or udisks- probe-ata-smart in lucid):
sudo smartctl --smart off /dev/sda You can check if smart is disabled, with 'sudo smartctl -i /dev/sda', the output should include (note the last line): SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Disabled Note the following comment in the smartctl manual: "In principle the SMART feature settings are preserved over power-cycling, but it doesn´t hurt to be sure." I have not yet rebooted. Looking at the strace of devkit-disks/udisks-probe-ata-smart, I see that the second (dangerous) ioctl is not executed when smart is disabled. -- devkit-disks-probe-ata-smart causes HSM Violations on SSD, and potential hardware death https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445852 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
