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The Saturday 2007-09-08 at 09:15 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> > I think it should be a bug somewhere. Perhaps you can check your drive
> > documentation to see if they mention smart or not. If they have smart,
> > then you can fill the bug on bugzilla...
>
> Seagate says the drive *is* smart capable, but that the smart function
> may be disabled by the bios. There is no setting provision for smart
> in my award bios, mb=k8n neo4 series socket 939 nForce 4 Ultra
> (ms-7125). bios was up-to-date as of August 1, 2007.
>
> Seagate info from online, bios/mb from provided MSI manual.
>
> will file bug...
I'm guessing that the bios support of smart, is that the bios will read
the smart log somehow on boot and warn the user if there is an impending
failure (ie, smart predicts a failure in 24 hours). I'm not sure that
disabling smart in the bios will really stop smartctl in linux from
learning the smart status of the drive.
But this is just a guess.
However, smart collection can be enabled/disabled on the drive itself,
using "smartctl -s".
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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