On 4/3/06, William L. Maltby <BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com> wrote: > Did you catch Leo's post on Sunday that Maxtor had a reported > problem and fix that might apply to you? Yes. I also saw Dave's post about smartctl ... I was interrupted this morning before I had a chance to reply to them. The short of it is: (Leo) I'm not having problems with the SATA drive on its own, but it is a Maxtor so I'll check that out; (Dave) I've had smartd chkconfig'd off since the day after I installed CentOS 4.2 because always gave a FAILED message at boot (said it was unable to work with the SATA drive).