System fails to boot with smartd enabled in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Issue
- System failed to boot up after smartd installation. It gave the following error while booting up:
Starting smatd: hdc : drive_cmd: status=0x58 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest} ide: failed opcode was : 0xa1 hdc: status error: status =0x58 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest} ide: failed opcode was : unknown hdc: drive not ready for command hdc: status timeout: status=0xd8 {Busy} ide: failed opcode was unknown
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 and 5.5
- HP DL385G7
- smartmontools-5.38-2.el5-x86_64
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