does smartd monitor SATA drives?

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:28:45 Post Subject: does smartd monitor SATA drives?

I know I asked Blue|Fusion a question like this regarding the server, but that was a while ago... And it was for the server. Now I have a regularly used machine at home with CentOS and SATA drives... Every boot up / shut down I see "smartd failed".

I know they didn't support SATA drives, but thought they might now. Any idea?

Also... Would it hurt to just turn smartd off?

Thanks!

BeerCheeze · Posted: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:35:05 Post Subject:

Apparently they need to update some stuff to be able to use smartd with SATA drives (Hmmmm how long as SATA been out? And yet the open-source community hasn't ported everything over to support them yet???).

You can turn it off though, it's just to monitor the SMART features of the HDDs. You just won't get a warning if the HDD's are failing is all.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:39:27 Post Subject:

I turned it off... Speeds up boot a bit, and makes it look cleaner by keeping that big red FAILED off the screen.

System only has SATA drives, so nothing is going to be monitored anyway... Bang Head