smartd spamming about Prefailure Attribute: 1

[Johann B. Gudmundsson]

Andrew Farris wrote:
> Johann B. Gudmundsson wrote:
>> 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..
>
> Everything in that file is commented out except for a single line:
> DEVICESCAN
Comment out DEVICESCAN and remove the top line "# *SMARTD*AUTOGENERATED* 
/etc/smartd.conf"
and kill -hup SMARTD_PID and check if those messages are still coming...

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