Kevan Benson wrote:
On Friday 01 December 2006 15:24, Joshua Gimer wrote:
Thanks, that is what we were thinking was happening. Smartd will not start
at boot, it parses the config file just fine and then fails.
Well, unless that's different than noted behavior before there were problems,
that doesn't really indicate a bad drive any more than a drive/driver that
doesn't support smartd. Smartd doesn't work on most sata drives with the
sata driver included in the stock CentOS kernel.
smart does work, the default config from from redhat is wrong see bug
#176835 and #187181. The output from smartctl used to be wrong. The
correct command was sent by Alfred
Use '-d ata'. -d is for device type, not debug.
Older versions of smart incorrectly said to use '-d libata'. Old
versions of CentOS-4 did not support smart on sata but no one would be
running anything that old would they?
If you want smartd to start at boot, edit /etc/smartd.conf and add '-d ata'
You should probably also read the instructions because out of the box it
probably won't do much useful work.
My config file looks like this:
/dev/sda -d ata -a -m smart-errors@xxxxxxxx -s S/../.././02|L/../01/./04
-I 1 -I 194 -I 195
John.
When I have seen smartd working, it starts fine but puts messages in the logs
about drive problems when there are actual problems.
--
John Newbigin
Computer Systems Officer
Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin
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