On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 12:35 +0100, Alexander Apprich wrote:
> I might be wrong, but smartd should only monitor devices which are
> listed in /etc/smartd.conf
Thanks for the pointer. Having now read the man page for smartd on the
format of /etc/smartd.conf I think I've made the necessary changes.
> Other than that, what type of disk is your external HD? I have a SATA
> drive and my /etc/smartd.conf looks like this
>
> apprich@elmstreet schrott $ cat /etc/smartd.conf
> /dev/sda -H -m root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I considered simply removing the line for /dev/sda from the file, but
reading over the error in /var/log/messages decided to try modifying the
file to:
# cat /etc/smartd.conf
/dev/hda -H -m root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
/dev/sda -H -d removable -m root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
and that seems to have done the trick. Thanks for the pointers.
Best, Darren
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