[Update] Re: Problem with smartd [FC3]

["D. D. Brierton" <darren dzr-web com>]

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 08:18 +0000, D. D. Brierton wrote:
> I've just exchanged the old IBM Travelmate drive in my Dell Inspiron
> 8200 for a Fujitsu drive:
> 
> Model: FUJITSU MHT2060AH
> 
> according to the hardware browser. However, now, whenever I boot up or
> shutdown/reboot smartd fails to either start or stop. I'd be surprised
> if a brand new drive like this doesn't support smart monitoring. How
> should I proceed trying to find out why smartd fails to start?

I've just realised that it is my external FireWire drive causing the
problem:

Jan 24 08:29:20 excession smartd[4107]: smartd version 5.33 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
Jan 24 08:29:20 excession smartd[4107]: Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
Jan 24 08:29:20 excession smartd[4107]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf
Jan 24 08:29:20 excession smartd[4107]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf parsed.
Jan 24 08:29:20 excession smartd[4107]: Device: /dev/hda, opened
Jan 24 08:29:20 excession smartd[4107]: Device: /dev/hda, found in smartd database.
Jan 24 08:29:21 excession smartd[4107]: Device: /dev/hda, is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Jan 24 08:29:21 excession smartd[4107]: Device: /dev/sda, opened
Jan 24 08:29:21 excession smartd[4107]: Device: /dev/sda, Bad IEC (SMART) mode page, err=-5, skip device
Jan 24 08:29:21 excession smartd[4107]: Unable to register SCSI device /dev/sda at line 2 of file /etc/smartd.conf
Jan 24 08:29:21 excession smartd[4107]: Unable to register device /dev/sda (no Directive -d removable). Exiting.
Jan 24 08:29:21 excession smartd: smartd startup failed

Is there a way of telling smartd to ignore my external drive and just
monitor the internal one? Does anyone who knows better than me think
that there is a bug here which should be reported?

Best, D

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