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Re: What problems does SMART Diagnose?
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David Gillett <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 29 Apr 2003 22:22:23 -0700
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On 29 Apr 2003, at 9:32, Howard Rubin wrote:

> I find it amazing how many computers do not have SMART turned on!

  On the first machines where I encountered it, enabling it in the BIOS also
enabled the EIDE controller on the motherboard.  And since these were all-
SCSI systems that were short of IRQs already, we couldn't have that.
  I was reluctant to enable it for some time after that experience.
Fortunately, it appears to have been a bug/misfeature of that particulr BIOS
and not a deliberate consequence of SMART itself.

David Gillett

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