On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 02:07:30PM -0500, Jim wrote: > what is smartd and do i need it? smartd monitors hard disks that implement the "SMART" specification. This allows the disk to monitor its health and report back to the host. It's mostly useful for newer disks. It looks like Fedora has a manpage for smartd so you can learn more about it by running "man smartd". There are probably log messages in /var/log/messages that indicate why smartd failed to run.
