On Thursday 12 August 2004 09:23, Thom Paine wrote: >On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 04:39, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 04:35, zbert wrote: >> > During my boot sequence, this daemon always fails. Can anybody >> > clue me in as to what it is and how I might fix it? >> >> It's a monitor for IDE hard disks. I've also seen it fail to >> start in some cases, but only on systems that don't actually have >> any IDE hard disks (CDroms don't count.) > >Mine fails as well. I don't have any IDE disks in my machine. I have > 2 SATA drives and 1 IDE dvd-rom and 1 IDE dvd-ram drive. Would I be > okay disabling this service as well? Rather than disabling it, I'd add the sata disks to the /etc/smartd.conf file. Having a message from the daemon when a drive senses an error sure seems like the right way to me. Ymmv of course. It takes no or very little resources to run it. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.24% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
