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 ===== Micro Solutions Consulting Member of The HTML Writers Guild http://www.ezy.net/~microsol International Webmasters Association 410-543-8996 MS Site Builder Network - Level 2 member ===== -----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 ><[log in to unmask]> >Tallahassee, FL >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > PCBUILD only works if you contribute. Send your messages > to be posted to: [log in to unmask] > PCBUILD mailing list is brought to you by: The NOSPIN Group http://nospin.com