Re: smartd problems

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 05:24:44PM +0200, Daniel Roesen wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 11:26:22AM -0400, Dave Smith wrote:
> > 2 SCSI drives ...
> 
> Bingo. Guessed so. SMART is IDE... smartd terminates itself if it
> doesn't find any SMART-capable IDE drive. So just turn it off.
> 
> Then again, it shouldn't terminate _abnormally_ so that the PID file
> is left over. Can you please file this in Bugzilla?
That is not completely true . It works on SCSI-3 hard drives and works
on any SCSI drive except it will not gather information from the
drive. You need to look at smartd.conf and its man page to see what
configuration may be wrong.
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