What is smartd?

[Thom Paine]

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 04:39, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 04:35, zbert wrote:
> > During my boot sequence, this daemon always fails. Can anybody clue me 
> > in as to what it is and how I might fix it?
> 
> It's a monitor for IDE hard disks.  I've also seen it fail to start in
> some cases, but only on systems that don't actually have any IDE hard
> disks (CDroms don't count.)
> 

Mine fails as well. I don't have any IDE disks in my machine. I have 2
SATA drives and 1 IDE dvd-rom and 1 IDE dvd-ram drive. Would I be okay
disabling this service as well?