On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:44:09 -0800
buhrow@lothlorien.nfbcal.org (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