On Aug 9, 2005, at 2:16 AM, Harry Freeman wrote:
My question is: How does DiskWarrior and Mac "Disk Utility" know that the hard drive is about to fail. I thought that this was only a feature of the new SATA drives.
This is derived from the SMART status, and most ATA drives for the last several years have been SMART capable. I think it started appearing in the late 90's.
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