> I'm running a CentOS 4 and smartd fails to start on boot > > the centos 4 smartd service doesn't support scsi ? It depends the scsi disk/controller you're using : for example on an IBM xSeries server with ServeRAID controller smartd complaints about not being able to register the device (Bad IEC (SMART) mode). Of course on such hardware, i always install the serveraid manager program to monitor disks and not smartd ... ****************************************** * Fabian Arrotin - http://www.arrfab.net * ******************************************