>> From some of the earlier threads that I missed (below) I have the
> impression that the problem may be a very simple one, namely that
> starting with 2.6.22 one needs to run a command to enable SMART when a
> box is first booted -- the kernel no longer does this as part of the
> init/setup of the disks. But that is NOT consistent with the first two
> reports above, which show 'SMART ENABLED'.
>
> Here are some of the earlier threads that I completely missed:
>
>
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