I had the same problem on my Dell Inspiron 5100. It turns out that the smartd.conf default location for the primary IDE drive, hda was actually pointing to my CD-ROM, and as a result did not return the expected responses when queried by the smartd service. After I realized this, and modified my /etc/smartd.conf file to probe hdc instead, it worked fine. Hopefully this helps in some small way.1. On fedora core boot up the service "smartd" fails to start. To my best knowledge this service checks the health of the disk drive. I have a dual boot system of XP PRO and Fedora core ! on the same drive. would that make a difference on if the service successfully starts. How do I go about starting and configuring this service to work?