HDC errors

[ByteEnable]

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 01:06, Dax Kelson wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 18:20, Nick Marsh wrote:
> > Why does fedora give a seek error on my system durring every boot.
> > 
> > 
> > hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04
> > hdd: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > hdd: drive_cmd: error=0x04Aborted Command
> 
> This is the smartd daemon (started at boot time) checking your CDROM
> drive's S.M.A.R.T. status.
> 
> S.M.A.R.T. only applies to hard drives, hence the (annoying) error
> message.
> 
> The culprit is the "DEVICESCAN" in your /etc/smartd.conf file.
> 
> You can't simply remove it though, since then the other example lines
> will be used.
> 
> My solution (since I only have one IDE hard disk) is to modify my
> /etc/smartd.conf file to *only* have the following two lines:
> 
> # First (primary) ATA/IDE hard disk.  Monitor all attributes
> /dev/hda -a -m dax at gurulabs.com
> 
> I'm CCing those those well intentioned people who responded to your
> message as well so they will know the true cause of this.
> 
> Dax Kelson
> Guru Labs

Well,  I do not get those errors on my system.

Byte