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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/17/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dennis Castanos</b> <<a href="mailto:dennismouille@yahoo.com">dennismouille@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in">Can anyone tell me what smartd does or why the startup error? Can I remove the check in the services? It's description reads "dead but subsys locked".</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in">thanks, <br>Dennis, new linux user<br> </div>
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<div><br>Hi Dennis!</div>
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<div>From the man page:</div>
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<div><strong>smartd</strong> is a daemon that monitors the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and<br> Reporting Technology (SMART) system built into many ATA-3 and later<br> ATA, IDE and SCSI-3 hard drives. The purpose of SMART is to monitor the
<br> reliability of the hard drive and predict drive failures, and to carry<br> out different types of drive self-tests. This version of <b>smartd</b> is<br> compatible with ATA/ATAPI-7 and earlier standards.
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<div>A place on the web for a man page if none is available by a working linux (google is our friend!):</div>
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<div><a href="http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/smartd8.html">http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/smartd8.html</a></div>
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<div>If I had a new drive I would be tempted to try it. But I have simply answered your question. </div>
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<div>You can remove it but it may be telling you something you need to know.</div>
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<div>Good hunting!</div>
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<div>Tod<br> </div>