What is smartd?

[Wolfgang Gill]

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:05:55 -0600, Steven Stern wrote
> On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:53:45 -0500, Matt Morgan
> <matt.morgan-fedora-list at brooklynmuseum.org> wrote:
> 
> The standard logwatch script
> 
>   /etc/log.d/scripts/services/smartd
> 
> will pick up the messages and put them in the daily summary mailed 
> to root.  I have yet to get an "interesting" message, but given that 
> I'm using old disks, I check every morning.
> --
>    Steve

When you have S.M.A.R.T. enabled in the BIOS. And when you boot your system,
the BIOS will output, that S.M.A.R.T. is enabled on Segate ... Drive (When you
don't see that message, then the drive doesn't have that ability). That will
tell you whether the drives you have, have S.M.A.R.T technology built into
them or not.

Wolf
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