What is smartd?

Stephen C. Tweedie sct at redhat.com
Thu Aug 12 08:39:38 UTC 2004


Hi,

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 04:35, zbert wrote:
> During my boot sequence, this daemon always fails. Can anybody clue me 
> in as to what it is and how I might fix it?

It's a monitor for IDE hard disks.  I've also seen it fail to start in
some cases, but only on systems that don't actually have any IDE hard
disks (CDroms don't count.)

--Stephen






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