smartd startup and md:recovery thread got woken up

[David Hunt]

Merrill Jr. Butterman wrote:

>1. On fedora core boot up the service "smartd" fails
>to start. To my best knowledge this service checks the
>health of the disk drive. I have a dual boot system of
>XP PRO and Fedora core ! on the same drive. would that
>make a difference on if the service successfully
>starts. How do I go about starting and configuring
>this service to work?
>
I had the same problem on my Dell Inspiron 5100. It turns out that the 
smartd.conf default location for the primary IDE drive, hda was actually 
pointing to my CD-ROM, and as a result did not return the expected 
responses when queried by the smartd service. After I realized this, and 
modified my /etc/smartd.conf file to probe hdc instead, it worked fine. 
Hopefully this helps in some small way.