Error SMART Status command failed

[eppesuig]

Hi, I am having this message using gsmartcontrol.

smartctl 5.40 2010-07-12 r3124 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, ​http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

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Model Family: Seagate Momentus 7200.4 series
Device Model: ST9500420ASG
Serial Number: 5VJ2QGLW
Firmware Version: 0002SDM1
User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 4
Local Time is: Mon Sep 13 10:49:16 2010 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

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Error SMART Status command failed
Please get assistance from ​http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
Register values returned from SMART Status command are:

ERR=0x00, SC=0x00, LL=0xff, LM=0x7b, LH=0x15, DEV=0x47, STS=0x50

SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
Warning: This result is based on an Attribute check.

[Christian Franke]

Which controller and driver is used?
Please attach output of smartctl -r ioctl,2 -H ....

[Christian Franke]

No feedback since Sep 2010.