I've got an Eee PC 4G (701) (in use since March of 2008 with Xandros)
and Ubuntu 9.10 reports this error on the internal solid state drive
after being woken up.

I'm guessing the problem is with the fact that SD cards are not designed
for high volumes of write operations and the virtual memory/swap
partition is subject to high volumes of read-write operations. The SD's
SMART circuitry probably detects this and (rightly) says "stop it". The
Asus provided version of Xandros does not use a swap disk and it is also
optimized to not write to the disk often (unfortunately it doesn't seem
to be updated anymore so, for example, FireFox is still sitting back at
version 2.x... if it were I'd still be running it).

So... now to find out whether I should actually bother to "fix" the
problem and whether I can configure an SD card in the card reader slot
to be the swap disk (to be started up after boot). Unfortunately the
card reader slot is treated as USB 1.1 if you use it as the boot device
(vs. 2.0 later on) so you're getting 12 Mbit/s max read-write operations
which are as slow as molasses in January.

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warning given about disk health due to smart not being enabled
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/454301
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