Per Bjornsson wrote:
On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 10:09, Gerry Tool wrote:
During FC3T2 boot up, I get the message that Starting smartd failed. Do others see this?
It starts fine when I boot to FC2.
Are the /etc/smartd.conf files for the two installations different? If you don't specify any disks in that file, smartd scans the IDE bus but quits as soon as it finds a disk that is not S.M.A.R.T. capable. this can e.g. be an optical drive. If the first drive it finds is not S.M.A.R.T. capable, it exits and gives you the failure message.
You can try putting a listing of your hard disks in /etc/smartd.conf ; the default (completely commented out) config file should have enough tips to figure out what you need to put in there. Or if you don't care about monitoring your disk health,just forget about it, maybe chkconfig smartd off so you don't get the annoying failure on startup. But don't blame me when your hard disks crash without warning you first! ;) (In all honesty, I'm not all that convinced that S.M.A.R.T. monitoring really does all that much good - are most disk failures gradual or catastrophic? I'd assume that S.M.A.R.T. can only help you detect the former...)
Thanks for the tip. smartd.conf contained lines for my two drives hda, hde, and also for sda and sdb which are a usb cardreader and flash drive. Commenting the two sdx lines solved the problem.
Gerry