Re: smartd and palimpsest

[Frank Cox <theatre@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:11:58 -0400
Robert Heller wrote:

> The disk's *firmware* updated itself.  
...
> Appearently, palimpsest does some of what smartctl does: accesses the
> SMART data on the drive.  This is completely independent of smartd. 
> Smartd is a daemon that runs in the background and periodicly accesses
> the SMART data on the drive(s) and if there is some sort of notworthly
> problem or condition (too hot, bad sectors being remapped, etc.), it
> logs it and sends an E-Mail to root@localhost.

Ah!   The light just came on.

Thanks ever so much for the explanation!

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