On Tuesday 24 Jun 2003 2:58 am, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> As to the subject, SMART, I believe y'all would be better off
> disabling this useless marketing gimick. When it does manage to
> work, it's already too late most all the time, and it will
> constantly impose an overhead on IDE transfers while it's enabled.
> Periodic checks with Linux tools when you suspect HDD problems are
> much better. You can use all of 'em with SMART disabled in bios.
> One is hddtemp, hddtemp-0.3-0.beta4.2mdk (that's cooker, but I
> believe it's available for older Mandrake versions). Reads HDD temp
> from SMART capable drives, without SMART bios B$
regarding smart I have it disabled in bios. But normal installation of mdk 9.1
enables smart as shown by lshw program as given below.
*-ide:0
description: Channel 0
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
logical name: ide0
clock: 33MHz
*-disk:0
description: ATA Disk
product: ST320413A
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:master
logical name: /dev/hda
version: 3.39
serial: 6ED1JBLC
size: 18GB
capacity: 18GB
capabilities: ata dma lba iordy smart security pm
configuration: mode=udma5 smart=on
*-disk:1
description: ATA Disk
product: SAMSUNG SP4002H
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:slave
logical name: /dev/hdb
version: QU100-60
serial: 0411J1FT811301
size: 37GB
capacity: 37GB
capabilities: ata dma lba iordy smart security pm
configuration: mode=udma5 smart=on
Or am I mistaken that smart=on is something else?
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