HDD S.M.A.R.T.

[Variable]

What is HDD S.M.A.R.T.? You can enable/disable it in most mobo Bios's.

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[NDC]

S.M.A.R.T is a setting in your BIOS that you can enable that will or should I say should notify you if your IDE HDD is about to crash. Your IDE HDD must support S.M.A.R.T feature to use it. Most newer IDE HDD's support this feature. S.M.A.R.T does not apply on SCSI drives.

Note: I've noticed that no such warnings are given by S.M.A.R.T on ceratin M/B despite the fact that the feature was enabled. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif

[This message has been edited by NDC (edited 11-11-2000).]

[otheos]

NDC, SCSI HDs have SMART as well. (At least IBM's).

[BFlurie]

Ditto, NDC, my HD's been teetering on the brink for weeks now & SMART hasn't done squat. It's enabled in the BIOS & other utilities say it's enabled. The way you tell a HD is going is clusters start going bad.....