Re: 'smart' status on new laptop

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:44:09 -0800
buhrow%lothlorien.nfbcal.org@localhost (Brian Buhrow) wrote:

>       that's a Seagate SATA disk.

Right, though it's running in PATA mode because something in NetBSD
can't cope with that drive in SATA mode, per a long-ago thread.  (I
should send-pr that.)

So -- it's a Seagate drive, and smart is known to be broken on
Seagates.  Should I just disable smartd entirely?


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb