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. Older versions of smart incorrectly said to use '-d libata'. Old versions of CentOS-4 did not support smart on sata but no one would be running anything that old would they? If you want smartd to start at boot, edit /etc/smartd.conf and add '-d ata' You should probably also read the instructions because out of the box it probably won't do much useful work. My config file looks like this: /dev/sda -d ata -a -m smart-errors at xxxx.com -s S/../.././02|L/../01/./04 -I 1 -I 194 -I 195 John. > > When I have seen smartd working, it starts fine but puts messages in the logs > about drive problems when there are actual problems. > -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin