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Re: S.M.A.R.T.
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David Gillett <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 5 Apr 1999 14:08:41 -0800
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On 5 Apr 99, at 7:27, Brad Loomis wrote:

> Does anyone know how to enable S.M.A.R.T. on a SCSI drive? My IBM
> DDRS34560UW is supposed to be SMART aware, but I know not how to
> make it work.

  Our limited experience with enabling SMART was that it somehow re-enabled
IDE support on our all-SCSI servers.  We had to turn it off to get them to
boot properly.  My working rule-of-thumb since has been that "SCSI and
SMART don't mix".

  Presumably, though, somebody at IBM knew better than that, in order to
make this drive.  I wonder what the real story is....

  On our systems, SMART was an option enabled in the CMOS setup for the
motherboard/chipset.


David G

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