Re: Previously removed hard disk detected

Ozy de Jong wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have changed a hard disk from a laptop (cloned system) and reinstalled smartmontools for Windows.
> The smartd.conf file contains only one DEVICESCAN line but i keep getting mails about the previous installed hard disk.
> Is there anything i can do to prevent this behavior ?

Does the mailer possibly resent the contents of a old temp file ?

The smartd_warning.cmd script creates some "%TMP%/smartd_warning-*.txt" 
and runs the mailer.
If smartd is run as service, TMP is typically set to C:\Windows\TEMP.


> Where does smartmontools "detect" the disks ?

Check the output of "smartd -q onecheck".

Thanks,
Christian


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