Smartd will cause a kernel panic under 2.6.10. I've not investigated this very far, but I suspect it is merely related to having SATA drives on a 3ware RAID controller - you can't access SMART information directly from the drives, and the SCSI driver didn't seem to like the request. Not sure where the bug lies.
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