[Update] Re: Problem with smartd [FC3]

[Alexander Apprich]

D. D. Brierton wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 08:18 +0000, D. D. Brierton wrote:
> 
>>I've just exchanged the old IBM Travelmate drive in my Dell Inspiron
>>8200 for a Fujitsu drive:
>>
>>Model: FUJITSU MHT2060AH
>>
>>according to the hardware browser. However, now, whenever I boot up or
>>shutdown/reboot smartd fails to either start or stop. I'd be surprised
>>if a brand new drive like this doesn't support smart monitoring. How
>>should I proceed trying to find out why smartd fails to start?
> 
> 
> I've just realised that it is my external FireWire drive causing the
> problem:
> 
> Jan 24 08:29:20 excession smartd[4107]: smartd version 5.33 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
> Jan 24 08:29:20 excession smartd[4107]: Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
> Jan 24 08:29:20 excession smartd[4107]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf
> Jan 24 08:29:20 excession smartd[4107]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf parsed.
> Jan 24 08:29:20 excession smartd[4107]: Device: /dev/hda, opened
> Jan 24 08:29:20 excession smartd[4107]: Device: /dev/hda, found in smartd database.
> Jan 24 08:29:21 excession smartd[4107]: Device: /dev/hda, is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
> Jan 24 08:29:21 excession smartd[4107]: Device: /dev/sda, opened
> Jan 24 08:29:21 excession smartd[4107]: Device: /dev/sda, Bad IEC (SMART) mode page, err=-5, skip device
> Jan 24 08:29:21 excession smartd[4107]: Unable to register SCSI device /dev/sda at line 2 of file /etc/smartd.conf
> Jan 24 08:29:21 excession smartd[4107]: Unable to register device /dev/sda (no Directive -d removable). Exiting.
> Jan 24 08:29:21 excession smartd: smartd startup failed
> 
> Is there a way of telling smartd to ignore my external drive and just
> monitor the internal one? Does anyone who knows better than me think
> that there is a bug here which should be reported?

I might be wrong, but smartd should only monitor devices which are
listed in /etc/smartd.conf

Other than that, what type of disk is your external HD? I have a SATA
drive and my /etc/smartd.conf looks like this

apprich at elmstreet schrott $ cat /etc/smartd.conf
/dev/sda -H -m root at localhost.localdomain

> 
> Best, D
> 

Alex