FC3T2 startup - Starting smartd [Failed]

[Gerry Tool]

Per Bjornsson wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 10:09, Gerry Tool wrote:
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>>During FC3T2 boot up, I get the message that Starting smartd failed.  Do 
>>others see this?
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>>It starts fine when I boot to FC2.
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>Are the /etc/smartd.conf files for the two installations different? 
>If you don't specify any disks in that file, smartd scans the IDE bus
>but quits as soon as it finds a disk that is not S.M.A.R.T. capable.
>this can e.g. be an optical drive. If the first drive it finds is not
>S.M.A.R.T. capable, it exits and gives you the failure message.
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>You can try putting a listing of your hard disks in /etc/smartd.conf ;
>the default (completely commented out) config file should have enough
>tips to figure out what you need to put in there. Or if you don't care
>about monitoring your disk health,just forget about it, maybe 
>chkconfig smartd off
>so you don't get the annoying failure on startup. But don't blame me
>when your hard disks crash without warning you first! ;) (In all
>honesty, I'm not all that convinced that S.M.A.R.T. monitoring really
>does all that much good - are most disk failures gradual or
>catastrophic? I'd assume that S.M.A.R.T. can only help you detect the
>former...)
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Thanks for the tip.  smartd.conf contained lines for my two drives hda, 
hde, and also for sda and sdb which are a usb cardreader and flash 
drive.  Commenting the two sdx lines solved the problem.

Gerry