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-----
From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[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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