On Thursday 07 December 2006 14:21, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote: > On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Pete Connolly wrote: > > On Thursday 07 December 2006 13:45, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote: > > > On my laptop I just started getting this error below about 3 weeks ago. > > > I have tried to track it down, but I have been unsuccessfule. The > > > message in the log is... > > > > > > Dec 6 06:33:35 blg kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xef > > > > If the drive is SMART capable, it might be an idea to install > > smartmontools, enable monitoring on the drive and see if the temp. is > > fluctuating beforehand. You should find lots of info in > > /var/log/messages.. > > They are and I do not get any messages there only the one above. That is > why this is so frustrating. > > Thanks, > Very strange. Have you tried just doing a smartctl -H /dev/<drive> to check it's health? Or maybe seeing it capabilities with smartctl -c /dev/<drive>? Just to see if smart can do useful things will it.
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