smartd.conf
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Thu Apr 7 17:31:09 UTC 2005
Scott Mertens wrote:
> I am getting a [FAILED] on the bootup for smartd.
>
> The man pages say this is some sort of disk monitoring service, and I am
> wondering if it is failing because my SATA drives are being recognized
> as SCSI drives as seem below.
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
> /dev/sda2 14 24321 195254010 8e Linux LVM
smartd is a daemon that watches SMART-compatible drives. SMART allows
the drive to tell the daemon how healthy it is (total number of power
on hours, number of power cycles, etc.). It isn't necessary for you
to use it--and many drives aren't SMART-compatible.
In other words, don't worry about it.
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