smartd problems

[Randy Kelsoe]

Daniel Roesen wrote:

>On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 11:26:22AM -0400, Dave Smith wrote:
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>>2 SCSI drives ...
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>Bingo. Guessed so. SMART is IDE... smartd terminates itself if it
>doesn't find any SMART-capable IDE drive. So just turn it off.
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>Then again, it shouldn't terminate _abnormally_ so that the PID file
>is left over. Can you please file this in Bugzilla?
>
Not true. SCSI drives can be monitored with smartd as well:

--------------------- Smartd Begin ------------------------ 

/dev/sda :
   2 Time(s): Temperature changed -2 Celsius to 33 Celsius since last report  
   2 Time(s): Temperature changed 2 Celsius to 35 Celsius since last report  

 ---------------------- Smartd End ------------------------- 


By default, smartd is setup to monitor IDE drives. Edit your /etc/smartd.conf file and comment out any reference to IDE drives, and add entries for your SCSI drives. Something like this should work:

/dev/sda -H -m root at localhost.localdomain
/dev/sdb -H -m root at localhost.localdomain

You might want to get the latest copy of smartmontools, since the one 
that ships with fedora is getting old.