[Bug 445852] Re: devkit-disks-probe-ata-smart causes HSM Violations on SSD, and potential hardware death

[Tommy Trussell]

Would it be useful to create a "dummy" libatasmart4 package that
responds to its calls with something innocuous but doesn't actually
probe the SMART status? I see it's not easy to just yank it out because
of other packages' dependencies upon it. I would prefer to disable the
package in a way that survives ordinary software updates.

I'm not sure how @mint-one was able to avoid filesystem breakage... I
wasn't able to reapply the patch in time, though maybe I was just
especially un-lucky or un-careful.

P.S.: The Patriot Lite 32GB SSD upgrade on my ASUS 900 seems most
susceptible to damage when the root partition or the root + swap
partitions completely fill the drive. I don't know what that might mean,
except that it's a "bigger target" for breakage. The beta 9.10 NBR
installers (prior to October) could not even finish the job without
completely trashing the filesystem before grub was installed.

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devkit-disks-probe-ata-smart causes HSM Violations on SSD, and potential hardware death
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