[smartmontools-support] Problem with Seagate Barracuda ST3250620AS

[Gunnar S. <sto...@we...>]

| On command "smartctl -a -d sat /dev/sda" comes following output:
|=20
| smartctl version 5.37 [x86_64-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Al=
len
| Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
|=20
| =3D=3D=3D START OF INFORMATION SECTION =3D=3D=3D
| Model Family:     Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 family
| Device Model:     ST3250620AS
| Serial Number:    5QE0BTK2
| Firmware Version: 3.AAC
| User Capacity:    250.059.350.016 bytes
| Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
| ATA Version is:   7
| ATA Standard is:  Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
| Local Time is:    Wed Sep 19 19:08:48 2007 CEST
| SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
| SMART support is: Enabled
|=20
| Error SMART Status command failed
| Please get assistance from http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
| Values from ATA status return descriptor are:
|  00     09 0c 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 50                       =
      =20
| A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '=
-T permissive' options.

So here i am :-)
System is an AMD X2 4200+ with Gentoo x86_64 Distro and a
2.6.22-suspend2 kernel. The Disk is a real SATA-Drive.
If you need more information just ask.


Sincerely Gunnar Steiniger

P.S.: sorry for my poor english