Date:  Sun, 17 Sep 2006 00:28:34 +0200
From:  Arthur Sherman <arturs (at mark) netvision.net.il>
Subject:  [coba-e:06997] Smartd failed
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Message-Id:  <002f01c6d9df$723b4860$c7a91bac@lapxp>
X-Mail-Count: 06997


Hi,

I have this in messages:
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Sep 17 00:21:45 ns1 smartd[4995]: smartd version 5.33
[i686-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen 
Sep 17 00:21:45 ns1 smartd[4995]: Home page is
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/  
Sep 17 00:21:45 ns1 smartd[4995]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf

Sep 17 00:21:45 ns1 smartd[4995]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf
parsed. 
Sep 17 00:21:45 ns1 smartd[4995]: Device: /dev/sda, opened 
Sep 17 00:21:45 ns1 smartd[4995]: Device: /dev/sda, Bad IEC (SMART) mode
page, err=-5, skip device 
Sep 17 00:21:45 ns1 smartd[4995]: Unable to register SCSI device /dev/sda at
line 1 of file /etc/smartd.conf 
Sep 17 00:21:45 ns1 smartd[4995]: Unable to register device /dev/sda (no
Directive -d removable). Exiting. 
Sep 17 00:21:45 ns1 smartd: smartd startup failed
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Drives are SATA.

The project homepage has a newer version, dated this year.
Since yum has not it in repos, it should probably be updated from tar.

What do you say, guys:

1) why there are errors in messages log?
2) is it safe to update the soft?


Best,

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Arthur Sherman

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CPTeam