smartd spamming about Prefailure Attribute: 1

[Johann B. Gudmundsson]

Andrew Farris wrote:
> Hey all,
> Attached is a bunch of messages I'm receiving from smartd about
> prefailure attribute and usage
> attribute for both of my internal drives.  I'm wondering if these
> drives are both dying, or if smartd
> is misbehaving.  I'm not really familiar with smart, so any clues
> would be helpful.
> Anyone else seeing excessive messages out of smartd?
>
> rawhide
> kernel-2.6.25-0.82.rc3.git2.fc9.i686
> smartmontools-5.37-8.5.fc9.i386
>
>   

Try blanking ( you can back up the file first ) /etc/smartd.conf and reboot
and see if it stills spews out those messages..

Did your disable selinux to see if you experience the udev problem..
( or am I the only one.. ) :< ...

Best regards.
                   Johann B.