smartd spamming about Prefailure Attribute: 1

Andrew Farris lordmorgul at gmail.com
Wed Mar 5 22:27:23 UTC 2008


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

> Did your disable selinux to see if you experience the udev problem..
> ( or am I the only one.. ) :< ...

Going to try that shortly.

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