Rick,


 S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a two
part technology that can detect and warn about hard disk failures.

First, the hard drive must be capable of performing predictive failure
testing (the SMA part) and then the MoBo BIOS must be able to interpret
that data and display a warning to the operator at "boot-up" time (the RT
part)


Jim Meagher
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lindstrom, Rick <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Saturday, March 20, 1999 3:36 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] What is HDD S.M.A.R.T. ?


>Hi-
>
>A system I just built shows "HDD S.M.A.R.T. enabled" during the BIOS
bootup
>phase, and I'm wondering just what this is. I can't find any reference to
>it in the manual for the mobo (and EPOX). THe drive is a Western Digital
>UDMA 4.3 and the chip is an AMD K2-6 350.
>
>Anybody know what this might be?
>
>Thanks-
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Rick Lindstrom
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>Tallahassee, FL
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