smartd telling me nonsense

[Christoph Wickert]

Andy Green schrieb:

>This reminds me my logwatch has a ton of nonexistant device scanning from 
>smartd (Inspiron 5150)
>
>/dev/hda :  (<------dvd drive)
>   1 Time(s): appears to lack SMART, use '-T permissive' Directive to try 
>anyway.  
>   1 Time(s): not found in smartd database.  
>   1 Time(s): opened  
>
>/dev/hdb :
>   1 Time(s): opened  (<-- non existant)
>   1 Time(s): unable to read Device Identity Structure  
>
>/dev/hdc : (<--------- hdd)
>   1 Time(s): is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.  
>   1 Time(s): not found in smartd database.  
>   1 Time(s): opened  
>
>/dev/hdd : 
>   1 Time(s): opened  (<---- non existant)
>   1 Time(s): unable to read Device Identity Structure  
>
>/dev/hde :
>   1 Time(s): No such device or address, open() failed  
>
>
>.....
>
>/dev/sdz :
>   1 Time(s): No such device or address, open() failed  
>
You should edit your smartd.conf to only observe smart capable drives.
First thing to do is to comment out "DEVICESCAN", after that all other 
drives that should not be observed.

Christoph

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