System fails to boot with smartd enabled in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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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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