You can do a quick test to see if it recognizes your drives (replace /dev/sda by the drive(s) present on your system):
{{Code|sudo smartctl -i /dev/sda}}
To setup smartd to monitor your system automatically, edit the file '''/etc/smartd.conf''' and check for a line that begins with ''DEVICESCAN''. Comment it out by adding a ‘#’ to the beginning of the line something like this: