The Thursday 2004-10-21 at 14:30 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
I see you are still confused. Ok, I'll try to explain a bit more. The above line is not needed, Ho come as according to the man page this are listed under the section of SMART FEATURE ENABLE/DISABLE COMMANDS to enable it and allow offline testing. Perhaps it is only needed if the /etc/smartd.conf file is used?
I have not used that feature. I think it is to tell the HD that it should monitor smart values (or not), but not to tell you about it.
I have never used it. What I do is:
Manual testing: ----------------------------- Aaah,so just because I have SMART enabled doesn't mean it is automatically going to check the devices, unless of course the /etc file is called by a cron job?
For example. Or activate the smartd daemon, which is better than cron. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson