<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:lucida console, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div><br>----- Original Message ----<br>From: Dennis Castanos <dennismouille@yahoo.com><br>To: "fedora-list@redhat.com" <fedora-list@redhat.com><br>Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 11:31:33 PM<br>Subject: what is smartd? It fails on bootup.<br><br><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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br></span> </div><br><br>smartd is very cool and very useful.<br> <br> Do you have any USB drives plugged in? I'm not completely sure how it's supposed to work, but smartctl commands over USB don't work. (Is it just the drives that I have?) My USB drives show up as /dev/sda and smartd doesn't seem to recognise that it's a USB drive, not a directly attached SCSI/SATA/SAS/whatever drive. You can tell smartd not to worry about specific drives in /etc/smartd.conf (not to be confused with /etc/smart/). I haven't bothered, but that's the place to do it. Look up the smartd.conf file by invoking "man smartd.conf".<br><br>Good luck.<br><br>John<br><br></div></div></div></body></html>