S.M.A.R.T

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as an experimenter i seen to always save old harddrives...
i recently salvaged a 4gig drive that came up with
an immanent failure warning in the bios (S.M.A.R.T)

i ran a few harddisk utilities and there seems to be no problem with the
drive's surface...so i was just curious what is actually monitored?

also, since this is an old drive is it just possible that it is simply not
SMART
compliant?

(there is no data on the drive i need to keep, it;s simply used for
experimenting)
 
SMART
compliant?
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Bingo...or they are not as catastrophic problems...as 'smart' thinks they are'....its always been a little flakey for me in the
past. i dont use it..
 
JAD said:
SMART
Bingo...or they are not as catastrophic problems...as 'smart' thinks they
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are'....its always been a little flakey for me in the
past. i dont use it..
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thanks
i guess i'll keep experimenting with the thing and see what happens
 
philo said:
as an experimenter i seen to always save old harddrives...
i recently salvaged a 4gig drive that came up with
an immanent failure warning in the bios (S.M.A.R.T)

i ran a few harddisk utilities and there seems to be no problem with the
drive's surface...so i was just curious what is actually monitored?

also, since this is an old drive is it just possible that it is simply not
SMART
compliant?

(there is no data on the drive i need to keep, it;s simply used for
experimenting)
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Check the web for information on the drive and see if supports SMART.
If it does, then download the software for checking the drive from the
drive's manufacturer. If it checks out okay, turn off SMART monitoring
in the BIOS.

HTH,

Ari

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spodosaurus said:
Check the web for information on the drive and see if supports SMART.
If it does, then download the software for checking the drive from the
drive's manufacturer. If it checks out okay, turn off SMART monitoring
in the BIOS.

HTH,

Ari
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good advice ...thank you
it does have SMART capabilites it seems

and the drive did exhibit some problems with an HPFS file system
so i assume it really is defective...
but at the present time it works ok with dos...
even though it's a junker all right..
at least i am still learning something today!
 
good advice ...thank you
it does have SMART capabilites it seems

and the drive did exhibit some problems with an HPFS file system
so i assume it really is defective...
but at the present time it works ok with dos...
even though it's a junker all right..
at least i am still learning something today!
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S.M.A.R.T isn't ;-)



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philo said:
as an experimenter i seen to always save old harddrives...
i recently salvaged a 4gig drive that came up with
an immanent failure warning in the bios (S.M.A.R.T)

i ran a few harddisk utilities and there seems to be no problem with
the drive's surface...so i was just curious what is actually
monitored?

also, since this is an old drive is it just possible that it is
simply not SMART
compliant?

(there is no data on the drive i need to keep, it;s simply used for
experimenting)
Click to expand...

it prob means the drive has recorded crap loads of errors of some kind, and
the bios see's this and tells you, since you know it's an old drive, ignore
it, however, i wouldn't put anything important on it until you know it isn't
gonna die 2 hours after you install it :)
 
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