system gets crazy !

[Vu Pham]

On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 08:52 -0500, C M Reinehr wrote:
> > >
> > > Below is smtart output under /var/log/message.
> > > Oct 14 13:14:30 o smartd[3421]: smartd is exiting (exit status 0)
> > > Oct 14 13:14:32 o smartd[32471]: smartd version 5.37
> > > [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
> > > Oct 14 13:14:32 o smartd[32471]: Home page is
> > > http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
> > > Oct 14 13:14:33 o smartd[32471]: Opened configuration
> > > file /etc/smartd.conf
> > > Oct 14 13:14:33 o smartd[32471]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf
> > > parsed.
> > > Oct 14 13:14:33 o smartd[32471]: Device: /dev/sda, opened
> > > Oct 14 13:14:33 o smartd[32471]: Device /dev/sda, please try adding '-d
> > > 3ware,N'
> > > Oct 14 13:14:33 o smartd[32471]: Device /dev/sda, you may need to
> > > replace /dev/sda with /dev/twaN or /dev/tweN
> > > Oct 14 13:14:33 o smartd[32471]: Unable to register SCSI device /dev/sda
> > > at line 32 of file /etc/smartd.conf
> > > Oct 14 13:14:33 o smartd[32471]: Device /dev/sda not available
> > > Oct 14 13:14:33 o smartd[32471]: Monitoring 0 ATA and 0 SCSI devices
> > > Oct 14 13:14:33 o smartd[32473]: smartd has fork()ed into background
> > > mode. New PID=32473.
> > >
> > >
> > > I didn't touch smartd since I installed this system. Am I supposed to do
> > > anything with it  as the log shows ?
> >
> > You need to configure it in /etc/smartd.conf.  Googling will show you
> > some basic commands that can get you up & running too.
> 
> 	In the meantime you can use smartctl to have a look at the drive in question 
> to see if it's logged any errors. Something like: 
> # smartctl --all /dev/sda
> 


Thanks. It shows as shown in /var/log/message.


[root at o ~]# smartctl --all /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.37 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce
Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Device: AMCC     9650SE-4LP DISK  Version: 3.06
please try adding '-d 3ware,N'
you may also need to change device to /dev/twaN or /dev/tweN


I am going to look at the smart doc as Lonni suggested.


Thanks again everybody.

Vu