On Sunday, January 02, 2000 5:48 PM,  David Landau <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:


>It sounds so good that I enabled S.M.A.R.T. in my BIOS (AMIBIOS) -- what's
>supposed to happen now? How do I know if it's working?
>


IBM/Western Digital  (and Others) all have the S.M.A.R.T. tech on their hard
drives.  D/l EZ-SMART.EXE (1mb) from IBM's web site,
http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/welcome.html ,
Data Life Guard Tools, http://www.wdc.com/service/diagnostics.html,
If you are not on a "network", it is/has been recommended in other
newsgroups, that you should disable this feature because it is a Network
Administrators tool.  HTH.  :-)

Walter R. Worth
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