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soundbarrier

11-19-2004 02:08 AM

what's the smartd ?

hi everyone!!!
yesterday I installed FC3 on my computer .... and it doesn't see big problem...
but FC3 have some small problem on my computer.
what is the smartd ? smartd failed in the booting everytime.
My FC3 is very well boot operating except for this error.
I appreicate if you teach me that solution!!!
thank you...

linuXBOX

11-19-2004 02:40 AM

Chances are, as it was with me, the smartd config file is incorrect. It is located at /etc/smartd.conf . When I went from FC1 to FC2, they changed the cdrom to /dev/hda. However they forgot to change the smartd.conf accordingly. Edit it with your own information. Example, if you have one hard drive installed and it is located at /dev/hdb, comment out every line in smartd.conf, and add your one line to the end with the -a option.

#afhjhgfashfldf
#lkdsfhalsdfhlakfh
#lkfhlasihflhadf
/dev/hdb -a

The lines you want smartd to inspect must be uncommented.

After you are done, save the .conf file and run 'smartd -d'.
It will report to you the hard drives it inspected and their smart capabilities. When you are satisfied, use 'ctrl+\' to exit smartd debug.

To confirm if you had the same problem, you should be able to check dmesg to see what the smartd error message is
'dmesg | grep smartd', but it sounds like the situation I had.

soundbarrier

11-19-2004 04:12 AM

thank you for your advice!!!!!

I'll try it.

thank you very much!!!

soundbarrier

11-19-2004 06:15 AM

:eek: well...............
I try to set smartd.conf file

/dev/hdb -a root@localhost.localdomain

but error message is the same situation....

I have one HDD...
HDD; 250G (divide 3 partition)
- first partition is Windows XP
- second partition is Data Drive
- third partition is FC3

please teache me...how to set the smartd.conf

thank you...!

anzez

11-19-2004 07:37 AM

On my FC3 there is a script '/usr/sbin/smartd-conf.py' that automatically generates the configuration.

linuXBOX

11-19-2004 10:57 PM

run 'smartd -d' what type of message do you get?

soundbarrier

11-20-2004 02:51 AM

well...

[soundbarrier@localhost ~]$ smartd -d
bash: smartd: command not found
[soundbarrier@localhost ~]$

so what shall i do?

please teach me....!!!

linuXBOX

11-20-2004 03:08 AM

Smartd is located in /sbin, and this may not be in your $PATH. Try -

[user@localhost ]$ /sbin/smartd -d

If that fails you will probably need to be root in order to run it. That is executed as follows

[user@localhost ]$ su -
password:
[root@localhost ]$ smartd -d

And as with user, root's path may not include '/sbin'. If that is the case then

[root@localhost ]$ /sbin/smartd -d

Remember, once smartd is running you cannot ctrl - c to break out, you must use ctrl - \ to exit debug.

Try these possibilites in the order presented. If you are successful with the first suggestion there is no need to proceed to the next. Let me know how it goes.

linuXBOX

11-20-2004 03:13 AM

And once you get that straight I want to ask you to do something else. Run this command.

[user@localhost ~]$ df -h

And post the output.
This will let us know what to put in your /etc/smartd.conf file.

anzez

11-20-2004 07:06 AM

After I upgraded FC2 to FC3 I had the same problem. It proved out that it was because my /etc/smartd.conf was empty:

Code:

[root@thor ~]# /usr/sbin/smartd -d

smartd version 5.33 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen

Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/



Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf

Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf parsed but has no entries (like /dev/hda)

Unable to monitor any SMART enabled devices. Try debug (-d) option. Exiting...

[root@thor ~]#

I also found the '/usr/sbin/smartd-conf.py' script which generates the configuration that can be used for smartd.conf.
Here's what I had to do (as root):

Code:

[root@thor ~]# /usr/sbin/smartd-conf.py > /etc/smartd.conf

To see if smartd starts up now:

Code:

[root@thor ~]# /etc/init.d/smartd start

Starting smartd:                                          [  OK  ]

[root@thor ~]#

BTW: on FC3 smartd is located in /usr/sbin/ not /sbin/!

linuXBOX

11-20-2004 11:20 AM

As Mr. Burns would say "Excellent." I'm upgrading to FC3 today. I thought it was still in testing or I would've switched earlier. Sorry I didn't know smartd was moved! But it sounds like you fixed your problem!:)

rjcrews

12-16-2004 03:36 PM

im having the same problem here, was hoping to get some help with this.

when i do df -h i get something like

/dev/mapper/Volgroup00-logvol00
149G 3.4G 138G 3% /
/dev/sda1 99M 8.9M 85M 10 /boot
none 506m 0 506m 0% /dev/shm

my /etc/smartd.conf has:
/dev/sda -H -m root@localost.localdomain

i followed the instructions above but it failed, i suspect i need to change the .conf file but am not sure to what. any ideas?

thx

prcarp

12-30-2004 08:28 PM

I am stuck as well:

This is what is currently in my .conf (the python script echoes the same thing)

Code:

[root@localhost etc]# cat smartd.conf

/dev/sda -H -m root@localhost.localdomain

Here is the smartd output:

Code:

[root@localhost prc]# smartd -d

smartd version 5.33 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen

Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/



Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf

Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf parsed.

Device: /dev/sda, opened

Device /dev/sda, SATA disks accessed via libata are not currently supported by

smartmontools. When libata is given an ATA pass-thru ioctl() then an

additional '-d libata' device type will be added to smartmontools.

Unable to register SCSI device /dev/sda at line 1 of file /etc/smartd.conf

Unable to register device /dev/sda (no Directive -d removable). Exiting.

And the df output...

Code:

[root@localhost prc]# df -h

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00

                      40G  3.9G  34G  11% /

/dev/sda6              99M  19M  76M  20% /boot

none                  252M    0  252M  0% /dev/shm

What did I miss?
Thanks,
:newbie:

wiseNoob

01-06-2005 06:04 AM

Not sure if it helps, but I found this on RH bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla....cgi?id=134337

Apparently smartd does not support SATA drives - not sure if you are using one but from the prcarp entry above it seems you would be
"Device /dev/sda, SATA disks accessed via libata are not currently supported by
smartmontools."

If you are using only SATA, then theoretically you may be able to disable smartd altogether and not harm the system since it is not running anyway.

I also have this same problem and am wondering if I were to disable smartd it would screw with my PATA drive (that I believe is SMART capable) that has the os installed on it - any ideas?

my smartd.conf file has both drives listed - not sure if I want to try it, but I could comment out the sda line and see what happens...?

rjcrews

01-06-2005 06:31 AM

yea i did find out that sata didnt need smartd , so i turned it off.

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