Re: [smartmontools-support] smartd and suspend

[Jack S. <js...@us...>]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 00:12:42 +0000, Jason Lunz wrote:

> js...@us... said:
>> Thinking out loud: It's curious to me that restarting smartd would be
>> effective, since smartctl reports that the drive has SMART disabled.
>> Isn't this a state of drive rather than a state of the daemon?
> 
> smartd enables smart on all monitored drives at startup, doesn't it?
> 
> Jason
> 

Yep thanks.  It didn't occur to me to check for that outside of
smartd.conf directives.  Now that you mention it, I see in SMARTD(8):
>smartd  will attempt to enable SMART monitoring on ATA devices (equiva-
>       lent to smartctl -s on)[...]

I still haven't narrowed down the cause of SMART being intermittently
disabled -- it doesn't happen often.  Suspend-to-disk is still the prime
suspect. (So far it never happens on a laptop that gets suspended-to-RAM
very frequently.)

--Jack