Re: smartd spamming about Prefailure Attribute: 1

[Andrew Farris <lordmorgul gmail com>]

Johann B. Gudmundsson wrote:
> Johann B. Gudmundsson wrote:
> > Andrew Farris wrote:
> > > Johann B. Gudmundsson wrote:
> > > > Andrew Farris wrote:
> > > > > Hey all,
> > > > > Attached is a bunch of messages I'm receiving from smartd about
> > > > > prefailure attribute and usage
> > > > > attribute for both of my internal drives.  I'm wondering if these
> > > > > drives are both dying, or if smartd
> > > > > is misbehaving.  I'm not really familiar with smart, so any clues
> > > > > would be helpful.
> > > > > Anyone else seeing excessive messages out of smartd?
> > > > >
> > > > > rawhide
> > > > > kernel-2.6.25-0.82.rc3.git2.fc9.i686
> > > > > smartmontools-5.37-8.5.fc9.i386
> > > > >
> > > > >   
> > > >
> > > > Try blanking ( you can back up the file first ) /etc/smartd.conf and 
> > > > reboot
> > > > and see if it stills spews out those messages..
> > >
> > > Everything in that file is commented out except for a single line:
> > > DEVICESCAN
> > Comment out DEVICESCAN and remove the top line "# 
> > *SMARTD*AUTOGENERATED* /etc/smartd.conf"
> > and kill -hup SMARTD_PID and check if those messages are still coming...
> >
> > > > Did your disable selinux to see if you experience the udev problem..
> > > > ( or am I the only one.. ) :< ...
> > >
> > > Going to try that shortly.
> Just comment out DEVICESCAN  and add those 2 lines.. that should fix 
> your problem...
>
> /dev/sda -d ata -H -m root
> /dev/sdb -d ata -H -m root

Great thanks.  I tried without devicescan and gave it more than an hour to 
produce those messages and none showed up.  I added these two lines and will see 
what happens.

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