Hi Adrian, I only have my 3G network on my iPhone as our area got hit with a lot of lighting strikes & our ADSL Networks went down @ 4AM Friday.
if your S.M.A.R.T. status says your drive is failing, believe it. Back-up immediately. Run the SMART Check in the Tests category to get more detailed information about which SMART parameter(s) failed. This may help you determine the seriousness of the issue. Cheers, Ronni Sent from my iPhone 4S-teve On 22/01/2012, at 1:33 PM, Ray Forma <[email protected]> wrote: > Adrian, > > Checking the S.M.A.R.T. status of your hard disk with Disk Utility. > (Applications>Utilities>Disk Utility.app) > > Disk drives you use with your computer can include S.M.A.R.T. hardware that > tests and monitors the drive continuously for potential problems and > failures. You can check the S.M.A.R.T. status of your hard disks in Disk > Utility. > > S.M.A.R.T stands for Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology. > > If the S.M.A.R.T. status for a disk shows "Verified," nothing is wrong with > it. If you see "About to Fail" in red letters, you should back up the disk > and replace it as soon as possible. > > In Disk Utility, select a hard disk in the list of disks and volume. Look at > the bottom of the window for the S.M.A.R.T. Status. > > If you want continual indication of your HD status then I recommend that you > download and install Smartreporter <http://www.corecode.at/smartreporter/> > and check the icon it puts in your menubar. If that icon changes from green > to red it's high time to do a full backup before replacing the HD. > > On 22/01/2012, at 12:59 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: > >> Good afternoon all, >> >> I am getting a regular TechTools Pro 6. warning on my iMac. >> >> TechTool Protection Alert! ST31000528ASQ - 6VP3MSM0 on "/dev/disk0" is >> exceeding SMART warning levels. The SMART Check setting is configured in the >> TechTool Protection Mac OS X System Preferences pane. >> >> Model Name: iMac 27" >> Processor Name: Intel Core i7 >> Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz >> Number of Processors: 1 >> Total Number of Cores: 4 >> Memory: 8 GB >> >> OS X 10.7.2 >> >> I dont like the look of this at all as it seems to suggest that the HD is >> about to die. Can anyone confirm that this may be that case or is there >> something else going on. The machine seems to be functioning OK at the >> moment. >> >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> >> Adrian >> >> [email protected] > > Regards, > > Ray Forma > 50 Harvest Road, North Fremantle WA 6159, Australia > Tel +61 (0) 8 9335 6568 > Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
