SATA drives and smartmontools.

[Carsten Aulbert]

Adam Funk wrote:

> That command produces a whole lot of information about SMART
> capabilities, which I thought looked encouraging, but:
> 
> ! ROOT ! /home/adam # smartctl -s on -d ata /dev/sda
> smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
> 
> === START OF ENABLE/DISABLE COMMANDS SECTION ===
> SMART Enabled.
> 
> 

This look alright

> ! ROOT ! /home/adam # /etc/init.d/smartmontools restart
>  * Restarting S.M.A.R.T. daemon...                                              [fail] 
> 

Have you looked into

/etc/smartd.conf
/etc/smartmontools

and/or

/etc/default/smartmontools

?

Maybe you have to add a "-d ata" switch as well.

HTH

carsten