On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Randy Kelsoe wrote: > Tom Diehl wrote: > > >>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? > >> > >> > > > >Bottom line is you do not need smartd. Having said that, if your devices support > >it, IMO you should run it. If properly setup (and enabled in the BIOS) it can > >give you warnings of impending disk failure. There are numerous links available > >via google that will explain this better than I can. Try googleing for smartd. > > > > > > Actually, smart does not need to be enabled in BIOS. If it is enabled in > BIOS, the BIOS will check the smart status of the drive on boot up, and > if it finds a problem, it may disable or ignore the drive. smartd will > still work if smart is disabled in BIOS. Yes, you are correct. I found this info about 5 minutes after I sent the above. > > >Smartd will for sure monitor smart enabled SCSI disks. I do not know about > >SATA but since this is a new technology my guess would be that it will monitor > >them as well. IIRC, there was also a series of articles in Linux Journal a few > >months back on this. > > > > If the drive is on a SATA controller that is using libata, smart will > not work (yet). If the drive is using IDE mode, and the drive is > supported, it should work. > > http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/#testinghelp Tom
