What is smartd?

[Jeff Vian]

Rick Stevens wrote:

> Kaustubh Ghosh wrote:
>
>> I have a peculiar situation:
>>     
>> When my FC1 boots up,it gives a message:
>> Starting smartd:                        [FAILED]
>>
>> When it shuts down ,it gives message:
>> Stopping smartd:                 [FAILED]
>>
>> Everything ,the desktop etc. works fine -there is no problem.But what 
>> is 'smartd'  and why does it fail?
>
>
> It's a daemon that monitors disks that conform to the SMART
> specification.  Of course, you'd know that if you had done "man smartd".
> It's failing because a) it's not configured or b) you don't have SMART-
> compliant disks.  Check /var/log/messages for any error messages it
> may spew out while starting.

Does smartd depend on the bios having smart enabled on the drive?
You may also want to check that.