On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:56:41 -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@xxxxxx> wrote: > Jim wrote: > > when i boot up, i view whats going on and every time it says > > > > starting smartd [failed] > > > > what is smartd and do i need it? > > Smartd monitors S.M.A.R.T. status of your disk drives (if your disks > support it, and if you have it turned on, usually settable from BIOS, > you can also use smartctl command to switch it on and off after you boot > (again, if your disks support the feature). You can also use smartctl > utility to display S.M.A.R.T. status of disks and S.M.A.R.T. properties > in human readable format (among other stuff, most disks will tell you > for how long they were working, how many times they were powered on/off, > spinned up and down, current temperature of disk, and so on, list of > actual properties reported varies from disk to disk). > > In theory, S.M.A.R.T. is able to detect that something is going wrong > with your disk before it actually goes south. So it gives you a warning > it is time to buy replacement disk, copy your data to it, and ditch the > old one. It works by monitoring various internal properties of disk > (average seek times, positioning errors, read errors, and so on) that > user is not normally aware of. This is theory. Sometime this works > (you get warning before disk actuall dies), sometime it doesn't (disk > just dies, no warning). And sometimes it gives false warnings (for > example there was a bug in firmware of some Fujitsu disks that would > give "old age" failure after disk was used for several months). > > Do "grep smartd /var/log/messages" to see why exactly it failed. Most > IDE drives have S.M.A.R.T. support (but it is often turned off in BIOS), > as well as some SCSI drives. Smartd doesn't support SATA drives yet, > probably will one day... > > -- > Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@xxxxxx> Pollard Banknote Limited > Systems Administrator 1499 Buffalo Place > Tel: (204) 474-2323 ext 276 Winnipeg, MB R3T 1L7 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > it failed because i removed my second hard drive... now just how to edit the smatd to not look for that drive??? -- James Lawrence NY
