Problems removing a package

[Spiritchaser <anarka@netcabo.pt>]

Hey
i need to remove ucsc-smartsuite(new smartmontools package replaces it)
but... i cant... 

root@escaflowne:/home/cantara# apt-get --purge remove ucsc-smartsuite
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  ucsc-smartsuite*
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 3  not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 156kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Reading changelogs...
(Reading database ... 66542 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing ucsc-smartsuite ...
Stopping ucsc-smartsuite: dpkg: error processing ucsc-smartsuite
(--purge):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Starting ucsc-smartsuite: smartd.
Smart Values Read failed: Input/output error
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ucsc-smartsuite
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@escaflowne:/home/cantara#

what can i do ?
tnx :)