-Kip
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Kip Macy wrote:
> S.M.A.R.T. and SMART are not the same thing. A quick google search got me
> to this page:
>
> <http://www.belarc.com/Images/blank.gif>
> [About S.M.A.R.T.]
> S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a
> diagnostic method originally developed by I.B.M. for their mainframe
> drives to give advanced warning of drive failures. Large mainframe data
> centers wanted to know in advance if a hard disk drive was going to fail,
> because this gave them the opportunity to take steps to protect their
> data. Later Compaq announced a diagnostic which operated with a number of
> different disk drive manufacturers. These products were submitted to the
> ATA/IDE standards committees and the resulting standard was named
> S.M.A.R.T. Today all major hard disk drive manufacturers support
> S.M.A.R.T., including IBM, Western Digital, Quantum, Seagate, and Fujitsu.
> etc.
>
>
> On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Mike Fedyk wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 05:24:59PM +1000, Cyrus wrote:
> > > hi all,
> > >
> > > i've got a setup of 2 hard drives (30GB & 40GB) with an Asus a7m266 mobo
> > > with a VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 06).
> > >
> > > 30GB= fujitsu, 40GB= IBM (both are 7200rpm
> > >
> > > i've got my cdrw on /dev/hdc, 30GB=/dev/hda, and 40GB=/dev/hdb...
> > >
> > > all works alright for a while, but when i keep my computer turned on for
> > > a couple of days and then reboot. bios sometimes tells me that smart
> > > array (or something) failed with my primary master (30GB) and i should
> > > back-up soon.. next reboot it tells me that pri-master fails.. it's
> > > doing this quite regularly and i don't know how to stop it. i'm running
> >
> > Turn off "S.M.A.R.T." in your bios... Probably under the advanced bios
> > config menu.
> >
> > I know that Compaq has a SMART RAID controller, but does anyone know what
> > this does? (I've seen it on old p2 MBs and they didn't have raid...)
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