SMARTD fails at boot

[Kumara]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eugene Lin" <eugenelincc at gmail.com>
To: "Kumara" <kumara.jayaweera at damad.com>; "For users of Fedora Core
releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 11:09 PM
Subject: Re: SMARTD fails at boot


> Kumara wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > at boot, my system shows "smartd is failed" what does mean? if it is a
> > problem how can I correct it? really, I don't know what is the purpose
of
> > smartd. any clarification please,
> > Mohan
> >
> >
> Dear Kumara
>
> If you type "man smartd" in the shell, it'll explain that 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.
>
> If you're using SATA harddisk on your system, smartd will generate an
> error message as smartd does not work with SATA drives (yet).
>
> You can prevent smartd from loading up by disabling it from
> Application->System Setting->Server Settings->Services.
>
> --
> Eugene
>


Thanks a lot, i got it, i'm using a SATA Hard Disk but my CDROM and CDwriter
are IDE (ATAPI).
Now i have an idea to probe in to it.
thanks a lot.

Mohan


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