What is smartd?
akonstam at trinity.edu
akonstam at trinity.edu
Thu Aug 12 14:01:13 UTC 2004
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 09:39:38AM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 04:35, zbert wrote:
> > During my boot sequence, this daemon always fails. Can anybody clue me
> > in as to what it is and how I might fix it?
>
> It's a monitor for IDE hard disks. I've also seen it fail to start in
> some cases, but only on systems that don't actually have any IDE hard
> disks (CDroms don't count.)
>
> --Stephen
Two other things. Some older disks don't support this daemon. Also I
noticed there is an option to enable this service in the BIOS of one
of my machines.
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