what is smartd? It fails on bootup.

[Tod Merley]

On 5/17/06, Dennis Castanos <dennismouille at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>  Can anyone tell me what smartd does or why the startup error? Can I
> remove the check in the services?  It's description reads "dead but subsys
> locked".
> thanks,
> Dennis, new linux user
>
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Hi Dennis!

>From the man page:

*smartd*  is  a  daemon  that  monitors the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and
       Reporting Technology (SMART) system built into  many  ATA-3  and
later
       ATA, IDE and SCSI-3 hard drives. The purpose of SMART is to monitor
the
       reliability of the hard drive and predict drive failures, and to
carry
       out  different  types  of  drive self-tests.  This version of *smartd
* is
       compatible with  ATA/ATAPI-7  and  earlier  standards.

A place on the web for a man page if none is available by a working
linux (google is our friend!):

http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/smartd8.html

If I had a new drive I would be tempted to try it.  But I have simply
answered your question.

You can remove it but it may be telling you something you need to know.

Good hunting!

Tod
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