S.M.A.R.T. is the technology that vendors came up with to help with
failures.  If the drive is still under warranty I'd replace it ASAP.
 With a S.M.A.R.T. code the vendor (Maxtor in this case) will
replace it without putting you through a lot of hoops.  The drive is
telling you it is failing.

- Wayne Copeland
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  Minnesota Department of
  Employment & Economic Development
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>>> [log in to unmask] 4/13/04 12:35:51 AM >>>
I think for the most part its no big deal. If it was me I would
disable
the SMART feature. Just eating up system resources unnecessarily.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Peter Shkabara
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 5:19 PM
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Subject: [PCBUILD] S.M.A.R.T. error at boot

I started getting an intermittent error apparently generated by my
BIOS
that
tells me one of my drives (not the boot drive) has a SMART failure
and
to
press F4 to continue. This is a 40G Maxtor drive that seems to
works
fine.
Neither Norton System Doctor, nor the Maxtor diagnostic program
reports
any
problem with this drive. Also, the message during boot sometimes
occurs
for
several boots, and then no messages are seen for a while. Anyone
have
any
input on this?

Thank you for any suggestions or information.

Peter
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