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Fresh install of 64 bit mageia 4 with kde. I am seeing this in my logs:

localhost udisksd[2868]: Error performing housekeeping for drive /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/WDC_WD2500JD_00GBB0_WD_WMAEP1814847:
Error updating SMART data: sk_disk_smart_status: Input/output error (udisks-error-quark, 0)

The desktop computer has two Seagate SATA drives and one WD PATA drive. The error reported above refers to the PATA drive. I do not have errors for the SATA drives. All drives appear to be working fine.

Any suggestions?

Short search leads to:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53475
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61998
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... ug/1143495
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=921430

Only seems to happen with WD drives.

All of those links refer to libatasmart. My mageia 4 install does not have this package installed (although it is available in the repositories). With the default installation I have udisks2 installed which apparently does not require libatasmart.

Since you have a 64 bit system the package is named lib64atasmart4, which is required by udisks2.

Jim

Thanks Jim!

I will study the links provided.

I found an alternate workaround here (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... 175486386/)

I installed smartmontools and to disable polling of the drive in question (sdb) ran the following after temporarily disabling udisks2:
#smartctl -s off /dev/sdb