On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 10:35 +0100, fergus wrote: > > 2. On booting up smartd always fails. It's the only thing that does. I don't > know how to make it work, and, as a less powerful solution but one that > would likewise suppress this nagging announcement, I don't know what > initialisation file to tweak so that no attempt is even made to use it. > Do you have to enable SMART through the BIOS settings? The default may be disable. -- James Bridge <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>