Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 11:49:30 +0100 (CET)
From: Bogdan Costescu <bogdan.costescu@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
cc: Michel Machado <michel@digirati.com.br>, <linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com>
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On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> I've not checked super recent drives, but some about a year or so old
> do support SMART but it seems in a limitied (ie. broken) capacity.

S.M.A.R.T. is supposed to be an industry standard. Now, disk manufacturers 
can on one hand implement only a part of the parameters or introduce 
extensions to this standard; some other times they might have their own 
interpretation of what a parameter should mean. My impression is that it 
doesn't depend on whether they are cheap drives or not, but more on the 
manufacturer - f.e. I got almost the same parameters for IBM drives from 
different drive families of various ages (last 2 years or so).

IDE controllers cards or mainboards have had S.M.A.R.T. related functions 
for several years - I have Intel 440BX based mainboards from 1998 that 
offer the option of enabling it and give a warning message if something is 
wrong with the disk at boot time.

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Bogdan Costescu

IWR - Interdisziplinaeres Zentrum fuer Wissenschaftliches Rechnen
Universitaet Heidelberg, INF 368, D-69120 Heidelberg, GERMANY
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