On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 23:49:41 +0530, Kaustubh Ghosh wrote > I have a peculiar situation: > > When my FC1 boots up,it gives a message: > Starting smartd: [FAILED] > > When it shuts down ,it gives message: > Stopping smartd: [FAILED] > > Everything ,the desktop etc. works fine -there is no problem.But > what is 'smartd' and why does it fail? Thanks in advance. > You need to enable S.M.A.R.T in you systems BIOS (It's disabled by default). Else you will get this error. ALL new drives these days have S.M.A.R.T technology built-in. The HDD's hardware simply monitors the HDD and when there are problems, it will inform either the BIOS or OS's S.M.A.R.T monitoring software of a possible HDD failure. Wolf -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org)
