SMART Disk Dying

[Kurt Wall]

On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 12:10:13PM -0800, Shawn Tayler took 58 lines to write:
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> Kurt,
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> Is this built into the bios on your PC?  If so, what MB?

Both the BIOS and the disk. The BIOS checks the disks' SMARTs (I'm too 
witty for words) as part of the POST. Using the smartmon tools, which I
never did until I got the initial notification from the BIOS, I learned 
more about what the problem is.

> This seems real interesting to me, having delt with failed HD's this week.

Just got back from CompUSA with a new Seagate Barracuda 160GB ATA 100
drive. That should hold me for a few weeks.

The (first) lesson I've learned from this episode is to become more
familiar with the smartmon tools and to run the self-test (smartctl -t
<device>) regularly to create a log so I can catch failures sooner.

Kurt
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