> /proc/ide/hda/smart_thresholds /proc/ide/hda/smart_values Looks like an interface to access the disks with. smartd may use it or may use its own, it doesn't matter. However smartd does the monitoring and sends email if it finds trouble. The BIOS could at best do the same, I'll try it out although I don't expect anything outstandingly useful. It smells too much like this BIOS function which tells you every boot that you have a virus just because you installed Linux on your hard disk (doh).
> You can turn DMA off and still have a perfectly usable machine, you'll > just be running at less than optimum efficiency ;) True ;) There's a usability limit though, and a P3-450 falls below it without DMA. And anyway, my DMA works fine. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
