On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 08:18 +0000, D. D. Brierton wrote: > I've just exchanged the old IBM Travelmate drive in my Dell Inspiron > 8200 for a Fujitsu drive: > > Model: FUJITSU MHT2060AH > > according to the hardware browser. However, now, whenever I boot up or > shutdown/reboot smartd fails to either start or stop. I'd be surprised > if a brand new drive like this doesn't support smart monitoring. How > should I proceed trying to find out why smartd fails to start? I've just realised that it is my external FireWire drive causing the problem: Jan 24 08:29:20 excession smartd[4107]: smartd version 5.33 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen Jan 24 08:29:20 excession smartd[4107]: Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Jan 24 08:29:20 excession smartd[4107]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf Jan 24 08:29:20 excession smartd[4107]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf parsed. Jan 24 08:29:20 excession smartd[4107]: Device: /dev/hda, opened Jan 24 08:29:20 excession smartd[4107]: Device: /dev/hda, found in smartd database. Jan 24 08:29:21 excession smartd[4107]: Device: /dev/hda, is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list. Jan 24 08:29:21 excession smartd[4107]: Device: /dev/sda, opened Jan 24 08:29:21 excession smartd[4107]: Device: /dev/sda, Bad IEC (SMART) mode page, err=-5, skip device Jan 24 08:29:21 excession smartd[4107]: Unable to register SCSI device /dev/sda at line 2 of file /etc/smartd.conf Jan 24 08:29:21 excession smartd[4107]: Unable to register device /dev/sda (no Directive -d removable). Exiting. Jan 24 08:29:21 excession smartd: smartd startup failed Is there a way of telling smartd to ignore my external drive and just monitor the internal one? Does anyone who knows better than me think that there is a bug here which should be reported? Best, D -- ===================================================================== D. D. Brierton darren@xxxxxxxxxxx www.dzr-web.com Trying is the first step towards failure (Homer Simpson) =====================================================================
