This response makes absolutely no sense. The SMART feature is trying to tell
you that the hard drive has problems, and you're recommending ignoring and
even disabling it. If the Oil light came on in your car, would you ignore/disable
that as well? Both are informing you of problems, ignoring either will only
lead to bigger problems down the road.

In a message dated 4/13/2004 9:24:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
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
To: [log in to unmask]
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


Just my .02 worth,
Peter Hogan
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