On 12/4/06, John Newbigin <jnewbigin at 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 -- UNIX Administrator http://prefetch.net