Re: smartmontools

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 6:39 PM, ajtiM <lumiwa@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Today I installed "smartmontools" on FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3. In the
> smartd.conf I changed just DEVICESCAN -a and I have in /var/log/messages:
>
> acd0: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED>
>
> Do I need to setup something else in the smartd.conf or is something wrong
> with my HD, please?
>

That's not your HD complaining, it's your CD drive.  It's probably just
complaining about SMART inquiries to it which aren't supported.  Some way
to exclude scanning that device likely exists in smartd.conf.

-- 
Adam Vande More
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