The harddrake service is a hardware probing tool run at system boot time to determine what hardware has been added or removed from the system. It then offer to run needed config tool to update the OS configuration.
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1320 oct 12 07:22 /etc/rc.d/init.d/harddrake drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 oct 12 07:22 /etc/sysconfig/harddrake2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 oct 12 07:22 /etc/sysconfig/harddrake2/previous_hw drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 oct 12 07:22 /usr/share/harddrake -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 329 oct 12 07:22 /usr/share/harddrake/confirm -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 167 oct 12 07:22 /usr/share/harddrake/convert -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7981 oct 12 07:22 /usr/share/harddrake/service_harddrake