Comment 17 for bug 391576

I have now installed official OpenSuSE 10.3 and made a default installation.

However the default configuration file reveals the following issues on my system:
Oct 4 23:05:00 hermes smartd[10533]: Problem creating device name scan list
Oct 4 23:05:00 hermes smartd[10533]: Device: /dev/sda, opened
Oct 4 23:05:00 hermes smartd[10533]: Device /dev/sda: ATA disk detected behind SAT layer
Oct 4 23:05:00 hermes smartd[10533]: Try adding '-d sat' to the device line in the smartd.conf file.
Oct 4 23:05:00 hermes smartd[10533]: For example: '/dev/sda -a -d sat'
Oct 4 23:05:00 hermes smartd[10533]: Device: /dev/sda, opened
Oct 4 23:05:00 hermes smartd[10533]: Device: /dev/sda, not found in smartd data base.
Oct 4 23:05:01 hermes smartd[10533]: Device: /dev/sda, is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Oct 4 23:05:01 hermes smartd[10533]: Monitoring 1 ATA and 0 SCSI devices
Oct 4 23:05:01 hermes smartd[10598]: smartd has fork()ed into background mode. New PID=10598.

I don't know if that should be considered a problem at all, it seems like smartd is monitoring the disk anyway. At least it reports Usage Attribute changes from time to time.

The disk, by the way, is not a SATA disk, it is a a WD2500BEVE, EIDE, ATA-100 interface.

Jarl