On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 01:54:49AM +1100, John Gray wrote: > Does anyone know what "smartd" is? It is a service or something that is > loaded on startup, but it fails to start at boot. In addition to the suggestions that you do a "man smartd" you might also want to do a "man smartctl"--it produces less obscure reports of what the S.M.A.R.T. data means. -kb