What is smartd?

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Thu Aug 12 14:22:38 UTC 2004


On Thursday 12 August 2004 09:23, Thom Paine wrote:
>On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 04:39, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>> 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.)
>
>Mine fails as well. I don't have any IDE disks in my machine. I have
> 2 SATA drives and 1 IDE dvd-rom and 1 IDE dvd-ram drive. Would I be
> okay disabling this service as well?

Rather than disabling it, I'd add the sata disks to 
the /etc/smartd.conf file.  Having a message from the daemon when a 
drive senses an error sure seems like the right way to me.  Ymmv of 
course.  It takes no or very little resources to run it.

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