I need a SATA drive SMART utility

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Mike Henley

I tested a few SMART utilites and I haven't been able to find one that
works correctly with my maxtor SATA drives.

Does anyone know of one? preferably free but not necessarily.
 
Mike Henley said:
I tested a few SMART utilites and I haven't been able to find one that
works correctly with my maxtor SATA drives.

Does anyone know of one? preferably free but not necessarily.
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Are you trying to use it with a RAID array? I was unable to use
free-standing SMART programs with my RAID array, but last week, I started
getting SMART errors from the RAID controller itself - (it is ICHR Intel
RAID software on a Gigabyte 8KNXP board) - it checks SMART as part of the
start-up.

I now have ONE Maxtor drive (the other one is being RMA'd - 7 months old)!

John.
 
Are you trying to use it with a RAID array? I was unable to use
free-standing SMART programs with my RAID array, but last week, I started
getting SMART errors from the RAID controller itself - (it is ICHR Intel
RAID software on a Gigabyte 8KNXP board) - it checks SMART as part of the
start-up.

I now have ONE Maxtor drive (the other one is being RMA'd - 7 months old)!

John.
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Don't you have that utility on your Maxblast CD?
 
In what way did it fail ?
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if the "it" is the HD, it didn't, I just don't want to wait till it
does. If "it" is the SMART utitlies I tried, they don't work with
SATA, or don't detect the two harddrives, or give wildly erroneous
results (capacity 900gb!), or say indicators (most of them, like 9 out
of 10 or more) are not supported.
The free version of Everest seems to be working very nicely for
me on w2k and XP systems.

http://www.lavalys.com/products/overview.php?pid=1&lang=en&pageid=1
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I tried it, it didn't, I need a resident system tray one that'll
detect temperature changes and warn me of errors (that failure
prediction thing) .
 
Bioboffin said:
Are you trying to use it with a RAID array? I was unable to use
free-standing SMART programs with my RAID array, but last week, I started
getting SMART errors from the RAID controller itself - (it is ICHR Intel
RAID software on a Gigabyte 8KNXP board) - it checks SMART as part of the
start-up.
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No. Two maxtor SATA harddrives. Not Raid.
I now have ONE Maxtor drive (the other one is being RMA'd - 7 months old)!

John.
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Hmmmm. Worrying.
 
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