On 12/4/06, John Newbigin jnewbigin@ict.swin.edu.au wrote:
Kevan Benson wrote:
On Friday 01 December 2006 15:24, Joshua Gimer wrote:
Thanks, that is what we were thinking was happening. Smartd will not start at boot, it parses the config file just fine and then fails.
Well, unless that's different than noted behavior before there were problems, that doesn't really indicate a bad drive any more than a drive/driver that doesn't support smartd. Smartd doesn't work on most sata drives with the sata driver included in the stock CentOS kernel.
smart does work, the default config from from redhat is wrong see bug #176835 and #187181. The output from smartctl used to be wrong. The correct command was sent by Alfred
Use '-d ata'. -d is for device type, not debug.
I was referring to the "-d" flag that you pass to smartd on the command line:
-d, --debug Start smartd in debug mode
Not the configuration flag that goes into the smartd.conf configuration file. Sorry for any confusion.
Thanks, - Ryan