what is smartd? It fails on bootup.

[Claude Jones]

On Thu May 18 2006 2:31 am, Dennis Castanos wrote:
>   Can anyone tell me what smartd does or  why the startup error? Can I
> remove the check in the services?   It's description reads "dead but subsys
> locked". thanks,

It could be as simple as SMART not being turned on for your drives in BIOS. 
The toggle is in different places with different BIOS screens, but you 
usually can find it by highlighting one of the drives and pressing the enter 
key. 
-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA