Hi,
I am installing RH Enterprise Ed. V4, in my PowerEdge 1855 Dell machine. However during startup, it is giving some error message related to smartd. Do you have any idea how to solve this out ?

Oct 19 15:02:22 Blade smartd[2918]: smartd version 5.33 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
Oct 19 15:02:22 Blade kernel: NX (Execute Disable) protection: active

Oct 19 15:02:22 Blade smartd[2918]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf
Oct 19 15:02:22 Blade smartd[2918]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf parsed.
Oct 19 15:02:22 Blade smartd[2918]: Device: /dev/sda, opened
Oct 19 15:02:22 Blade smartd[2918]: Device: /dev/sda, Bad IEC (SMART) mode page, err=-5, skip device
Oct 19 15:02:22 Blade kernel: DMI 2.3 present.
Oct 19 15:02:22 Blade smartd[2918]: Unable to register SCSI device /dev/sda at line 1 of file /etc/smartd.conf
Oct 19 15:02:22 Blade kernel: Using APIC driver default
Oct 19 15:02:22 Blade smartd[2918]: Unable to register device /dev/sda (no Directive -d removable). Exiting.
Oct 19 15:02:22 Blade smartd: smartd startup failed
Oct 19 15:02:23 Blade kernel: ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
Oct 19 15:02:23 Blade kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)

Thank you

disable it....

chkconfig --levels 0123456 smartd off.

Alright, I'll let you decide first if you really want it or not, check out this link

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_85_3642.shtm

I don't use Dell's, but HP (which has it's own agents for pre-emptive failures), perhaps Dell has the same. Again, I haven't really looked into it much but smartd may not even support scsi drives all references seem to ide...although don't quote me on that.