--- Tony Dietrich <td@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday 28 Dec 2004 19:42, Globe Trotter wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I also have the smartd failed in my dual-processor. (This also has two > > HDD's, both of which are mounted via /etc/fstab and one writes to the > > other, as a redundancy.) > > > > Anything I can do to figure out the culprit, and rectify? > > > > Thanks and best wishes! > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > Edit /etc/smartd.conf > > The default behaviour of smartd is to auto-detect the drives, but the default > > distribution of smartd has smartd.conf set up to look for /dev/hda. > > Use (as root) > # fdisk -l > to find out which entries in /dev are your hard drives, then comment out all > other entries in smartd.conf and add a line > > /dev/hd? -a > > for each of the drives you want smartd to check. (replace ? with the > appropriate letter(s) for your own drives). The location for these entries > in the file should be obvious. > > This causes smartd to to a complete check on the drive(s) at its standard > interval. If you want to change the options, read the default smartd.conf, > which details the available options. Or > > # man smartd > > > TD Thanks, very helpful. Actually, my firewire backup directory was also in there in the conf script. Removing it was what made the difference. Best wishes! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
