smartd?

[Samuel Flory]

John Gray wrote:
> Hello all . . thanks for the great help I have received from this list 
> so far.
> 
> When fedora is booting I get an error regarding "smartd".
> 
> Can anyone tell me what that is?

   See "man smartctl".  The error is likely do to it trying to access 
you cdrom.  See the below example where hda is a cdrom drive, and hde 
and hdg are hard drives.


[root at goblin root]# service smartd restart
Shutting down smartd:                                      [FAILED]
Starting smartd:                                           [FAILED]
[root at goblin root]# tail  /var/log/messages
==> /var/log/messages <==
Jan 15 15:20:49 localhost smartd: smartd shutdown failed
Jan 15 15:20:49 localhost smartd[18095]: smartd version 5.21 Copyright 
(C) 2002-3 Bruce Allen
Jan 15 15:20:49 localhost smartd[18095]: Home page is 
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
Jan 15 15:20:49 localhost smartd[18095]: Opened configuration file 
/etc/smartd.conf
Jan 15 15:20:49 localhost smartd[18095]: Configuration file 
/etc/smartd.conf parsed.
Jan 15 15:20:49 localhost smartd[18095]: Device: /dev/hda, opened
Jan 15 15:20:49 localhost smartd[18095]: Device: /dev/hda, unable to 
read Device Identity Structure
Jan 15 15:20:49 localhost smartd[18095]: Unable to register ATA device 
/dev/hda at line 30 of file /etc/smartd.conf
Jan 15 15:20:49 localhost smartd[18095]: Unable to register device 
/dev/hda (no Directive -d removable). Exiting.
Jan 15 15:20:49 localhost smartd: smartd startup failed
[root at goblin root]# vi /etc/smartd.conf


Change
/dev/hda -H -m root at localhost.localdomain
to
/dev/hde -H -m root at localhost.localdomain
/dev/hdg -H -m root at localhost.localdomain

[root at goblin root]# service smartd restart
Shutting down smartd:                                      [FAILED]
Starting smartd:                                           [  OK  ]
[root at goblin root]# tail /var/log/messages
==> /var/log/messages <==
Jan 15 15:23:50 localhost smartd[18125]: Configuration file 
/etc/smartd.conf parsed.
Jan 15 15:23:50 localhost smartd[18125]: Device: /dev/hde, opened
Jan 15 15:23:50 localhost smartd[18125]: Device: /dev/hde, not found in 
smartd database.
Jan 15 15:23:50 localhost smartd[18125]: Device: /dev/hde, is SMART 
capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Jan 15 15:23:50 localhost smartd[18125]: Device: /dev/hdg, opened
Jan 15 15:23:50 localhost smartd[18125]: Device: /dev/hdg, not found in 
smartd database.
Jan 15 15:23:51 localhost smartd[18125]: Device: /dev/hdg, is SMART 
capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Jan 15 15:23:51 localhost smartd[18125]: Monitoring 2 ATA and 0 SCSI devices
Jan 15 15:23:51 localhost smartd[18127]: smartd has fork()ed into 
background mode. New PID=18127.
Jan 15 15:23:51 localhost smartd: smartd startup succeeded



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