Starting smartd: FAILED
I get this message when Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.6 starts up. This is a new installation. What does this error mean, how is it affecting me, and how can I resolve it?
Thanks. Mike |
smartd = Smartmontools
a utility for monitoring Hard drive health and notifying you early of pre-fail conditions. This may apply since Oracle Linux is based from RHEL, and fedora is the fast moving testbed for RHEL .. Quote:
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Here's a more detailed background:
I've installed vmware server, and then installed Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.6 under that. My host OS is windows XP, and device driver shows my hard drive as Array (IDE\DISKARRAY). When installing Linux, I got an error, No Hard Drives Have Been Found. The solution (per vmware forum) was to edit a .vmx file for my virtual machine and add the line, scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic" the var/log/messages file says (in part): local host smartd[4466]: 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. Bad IEC (SMART) mode page, err=5, skip device Unable to register SCSI device /dev/sda at line 30 of file /etc/smartd. conf (no Directive -d removable). Exiting. smartd startup failed This seems to me to be related to the SCSI vs IDE issue ... but I'm not sure what to add or change in the .conf file. Also, how do I read the smartd.conf man page? Thanks. |
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man smartd.conf |
I'll check out that man command. Other than that, any ideas based on the scenario and log messages posted? Thanks.
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virtual hardware wouldn't support a hardware monitoring protocol for a virtual hard drive...
you should just disable SMART it or uninstall it from your VM |
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