[wplug] journal commit i/o error

[Poyner, Brandon]

> I tried smartmontools, which, for whatever reason, claims that my 
> devices don't support SMART. I downloaded SeaTools Desktop (both my 
> drives are Seagate), and it said that SMART was enabled on 
> the drives, 
> which makes me think there was some kind of software error there.
> 
> The SeaTools Desktop ran its tests, but threw a floating 
> point error and 
> refused to test my second disk. Suspicious. I'm definitely 
> starting to 
> think hardware goofiness on this one.

You might have to tell smartmontools how to see the drives if they are
serial ATA and use libata (they'll show up as /dev/sd[a-z] if that is
the case).

"smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sda"

There should be a seagate tool that you can use on a boot floppy or CD
as well.

Brandon Poyner
Network Engineer III
CCAC - College Office
412-237-3086