Hi, thank you for your report and your effort to make Ubuntu better. I found that https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Smartmontools describes that this is part of smart-notifier.
It doesn't seem to come with much of a config, and the following just calls it (python script): /etc/smartmontools/run.d/60smart-notifier That is triggered whenever smart wants to send a report. So despite the notifier being a different package the issue is in smart itself and why it still scans the not available disk. The default config seems to rescan each invocation. "DEVICESCAN -d removable -n standby -m root -M exec /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner" Did you since then fully reboot or restart to let it rescan? If not "service smartmontools restart" might help to rescan. Might you have some disks configured in any of "/etc/default/smartmontools" or "/etc/smartd.conf"? ** Changed in: smartmontools (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1634990 Title: Hard Disk Health warning for removed HDD (Ultrabay) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/smartmontools/+bug/1634990/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs