smartd?

[Bevan C. Bennett]

John Gray wrote:
> When fedora is booting I get an error regarding "smartd".
> Can anyone tell me what that is?
It monitors hard drive health in compatible harddrives.

% man smartd
NAME
        smartd - SMART Disk Monitoring Daemon

SYNOPSIS
        smartd [options]

FULL PATH
        /usr/sbin/smartd

PACKAGE VERSION
        smartmontools-5.21 "$Date: 2003/10/13 14:31:34 $"

DESCRIPTION
        smartd  is  a  daemon  that  monitors the Self-Monitoring, 
Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) system built into  many  ATA-3 
  and  later ATA, IDE and SCSI-3 hard drives. The purpose of SMART is to 
monitor the reliability of the hard drive and predict drive failures, 
and to  carry out  different  types  of  drive self-tests.  This version 
of smartd is compatible with  ATA/ATAPI-5  and  earlier  standards  (see 
  REFERENCES below)

        smartd  will attempt to enable SMART monitoring on ATA devices 
(equiva-lent to smartctl -s on ) and polls these and SCSI devices every 
30 minutes   (configurable),  logging  SMART  errors  and  changes  of 
SMART Attributes via the SYSLOG interface.  The default  location  for 
these SYSLOG notifications and warnings is /var/log/messages.

        If  you send a USR1 signal to smartd it will immediately check 
the status of the disks, and then return to polling the disks  every  30 
  minutes. See the ´-i´ option below for additional details.
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