SMART is a hard drive self diagnostic feature that is being built into many hard drives now. Here's a few link I found on it - if you google it you can probably find some more:
http://csl.cse.ucsc.edu/smart.shtml http://www.drivehealth.com/smart.html Basically, your machine is letting you know that the chances of hard drive failure in the near future are good. - back up the data and verify it with a hard drive utility from whoever makes your hard drive. Anyone know how to get around it if your system won't let you boot when the hard drive does this? Is there a way to disable SMART drive checking in the bios? --Brent N. PS - for those of us who don't know, SMART stands for: Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.) --- Michael Ryan Byrd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I get this nice error message on booting up a HP > Invent 7920 desktop: > > SMART Failure Predicted on Hard Disk 0:WDC WD3 > 00AB-72BVAO-(PM) > WARNING: Immediately backup your data and replace > your harddisk drive. A failure > may be immenient. > > Press F1 to continue. > > When I press F1 I get a blank screen and the error > message reappears shortly > thereafter. > > Ideas? > > Ryan > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
