SMART is reported by the HDD itself, and it indicate on hardware level, so
if you see any SMART error, stopping using the HDD, backup anything you want
from it, and get it repaired/replaced, it won't last long.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "JustMe" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 5:38 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] What problems does SMART Diagnose?


> I have a 2nd Hard Drive in all my PC's (a practice I enthusiastically
> recommend) that is used for backup and extra data storage.  Recently when
I
> moved one (a Maxtor 30GB Model 53073H4)to another PC and installed it as
> usual > IDE Secondary Slave, it stopped my boot process with message:
> S.M.A.R.T. has found error on "Maxtor 53073H4" backup you data...etc; use
> f-1 to continue.
> This was a week ago.  When I continue the drive appears to work fine.
> Scandisk finds no errors on it and a HD diagnostic shows all OK.
>

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