smartd spamming about Prefailure Attribute: 1

Andrew Farris lordmorgul at gmail.com
Thu Mar 6 00:19:57 UTC 2008


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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