Comment 18 for bug 454301

"After upgrade from to karmic, once restart, I got a red message saying my disk is failing and have to be replaced, the exact message was:

DISK IS BEING USED OUTSIDE DESIGN PARAMETERS"

But ... smartdisk IS enabled on this mini-9.

# smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: STEC ATA DISK vS020.1.0
Serial Number: STECG51608A12r78IPkm
Firmware Version: AD B602D
User Capacity: 3,791,241,216 bytes
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: 6
ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 3a
Local Time is: Tue Jan 5 15:14:28 2010 EST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

Error SMART Values Read failed
Smartctl: SMART Read Values failed.

Error SMART Thresholds Read failed
Smartctl: SMART Read Thresholds failed.

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
     was never started.
     Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 0) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x00) Offline data collection not supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0000) Automatic saving of SMART data is not implemented.
Error logging capability: (0x00) Error logging NOT supported.
     No General Purpose Logging support.

Warning: device does not support Error Logging
Error SMART Error Log Read failed
Smartctl: SMART Error Log Read Failed
Warning: device does not support Self Test Logging
Error SMART Error Self-Test Log Read failed
Smartctl: SMART Self Test Log Read Failed
Device does not support Selective Self Tests/Logging