Re: [LUG] SMART drives

["Andrew Pearce" <arpearce at btinternet.com>]

I found this link on maxtor's website, hopefully it will answer your
questions
http://www.maxtor.com/products/diamondmax/techsupport/misc/smart.html

Andrew

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Horne" <J.Horne at plymouth.ac.uk>
To: <lug-list at area51.termisoc.org>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 1:25 PM
Subject: [LUG] SMART drives


> Hi,
>
> Anyone know anything about 'SMART' disk drives? I have 2 Seagate drives
and
> the gigabyte motherboard (or rather the bios) has a 'SMART' detection
> facility for disks. If I enable this then it says that the disks are
> compliant and their status okay. Sounds good. I know that SMART is
something
> to do with the disks performing 'Self Monitoring and Reporting' (can't
> remember what the T is - 'Technology'?), but I'd like a little more info
> about what it is monitoring and are there any utils so I can display the
> current 'SMART' status of the disks? I found very little about this at the
> Seagate web site.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John.
>
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