----- Original Message ----- From: "Eugene Lin" <eugenelincc@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Kumara" <kumara.jayaweera@xxxxxxxxx>; "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 11:09 PM Subject: Re: SMARTD fails at boot > Kumara wrote: > > Hi all, > > at boot, my system shows "smartd is failed" what does mean? if it is a > > problem how can I correct it? really, I don't know what is the purpose of > > smartd. any clarification please, > > Mohan > > > > > Dear Kumara > > If you type "man smartd" in the shell, it'll explain that smartd is a > daemon that monitors the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting > Technology (SMART) system built into many ATA-3 and later ATA, IDE and > SCSI-3 hard drives. > > If you're using SATA harddisk on your system, smartd will generate an > error message as smartd does not work with SATA drives (yet). > > You can prevent smartd from loading up by disabling it from > Application->System Setting->Server Settings->Services. > > -- > Eugene > Thanks a lot, i got it, i'm using a SATA Hard Disk but my CDROM and CDwriter are IDE (ATAPI). Now i have an idea to probe in to it. thanks a lot. Mohan >
