Re: [smartmontools-support] Areca 1680: SMART STATUS CHECK runs forever (sometimes)

[Eric A. B. <ebo...@ie...>]

Christian Franke wrote:
> Here the info I received from Areca:
>
> > this problem should cause by driver, please update the newest
> > driver(Date: 20130619) from Areca Web Site:
> > http://www.areca.com.tw/support/s_linux/linux.htm
>
> Please update the driver and report the result here.
>
> Thanks,
> Christian

Updated driver; same results (intermittent hangs; haven't tried with
extra message printouts yet to see if it's the same place.) Drives are
in an external (CIDESIGNSASX28 A.1 131(0:0)) enclosure, FWIW.

Thanks for looking into this!
 Eric