Hello all . . thanks for the great help I have received from this list so far.
When fedora is booting I get an error regarding "smartd".
Can anyone tell me what that is?
See "man smartctl". The error is likely do to it trying to access you cdrom. See the below example where hda is a cdrom drive, and hde and hdg are hard drives.
[root@goblin root]# service smartd restart
Shutting down smartd: [FAILED]
Starting smartd: [FAILED]
[root@goblin root]# tail /var/log/messages
==> /var/log/messages <==
Jan 15 15:20:49 localhost smartd: smartd shutdown failed
Jan 15 15:20:49 localhost smartd[18095]: smartd version 5.21 Copyright (C) 2002-3 Bruce Allen
Jan 15 15:20:49 localhost smartd[18095]: Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
Jan 15 15:20:49 localhost smartd[18095]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf
Jan 15 15:20:49 localhost smartd[18095]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf parsed.
Jan 15 15:20:49 localhost smartd[18095]: Device: /dev/hda, opened
Jan 15 15:20:49 localhost smartd[18095]: Device: /dev/hda, unable to read Device Identity Structure
Jan 15 15:20:49 localhost smartd[18095]: Unable to register ATA device /dev/hda at line 30 of file /etc/smartd.conf
Jan 15 15:20:49 localhost smartd[18095]: Unable to register device /dev/hda (no Directive -d removable). Exiting.
Jan 15 15:20:49 localhost smartd: smartd startup failed
[root@goblin root]# vi /etc/smartd.conf
Change /dev/hda -H -m root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to /dev/hde -H -m root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx /dev/hdg -H -m root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[root@goblin root]# service smartd restart
Shutting down smartd: [FAILED]
Starting smartd: [ OK ]
[root@goblin root]# tail /var/log/messages
==> /var/log/messages <==
Jan 15 15:23:50 localhost smartd[18125]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf parsed.
Jan 15 15:23:50 localhost smartd[18125]: Device: /dev/hde, opened
Jan 15 15:23:50 localhost smartd[18125]: Device: /dev/hde, not found in smartd database.
Jan 15 15:23:50 localhost smartd[18125]: Device: /dev/hde, is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Jan 15 15:23:50 localhost smartd[18125]: Device: /dev/hdg, opened
Jan 15 15:23:50 localhost smartd[18125]: Device: /dev/hdg, not found in smartd database.
Jan 15 15:23:51 localhost smartd[18125]: Device: /dev/hdg, is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Jan 15 15:23:51 localhost smartd[18125]: Monitoring 2 ATA and 0 SCSI devices
Jan 15 15:23:51 localhost smartd[18127]: smartd has fork()ed into background mode. New PID=18127.
Jan 15 15:23:51 localhost smartd: smartd startup succeeded
-- Unless you can't avoid it never put a serial number on any of your systems!! (The Numberless Rule of Hardware Acquisition) Sam Flory <sflory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
