From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Fri Jul 23 1999 - 16:48:27 EDT
Sylvestre...
Apparently THIS particular TP600E does have an IBM drive..
(i asked about that)
and yes, all are S.M.A.R.T. drives..
but since you mention it, i'm not sure i actually know which utility
actually monitors the smart capability of these drives..
i, personally, use a utility to look at the smart drive... end get data off
it..
a call to IBM might shed some light on this..
Sylvestre Meininger wrote:
> I thought high-end TPs Hard Drives were SMART enabled ??...
>
> I believe SMART is designed to monitor physical HD failure risk and
> prevent just this kind of problems.
>
> Could the fact that this 600E had (maybe) an Hitachi drive mean that
> it's not SMART ??
>
> Gee... one of the reason I bought my 770 was the IBM SMART hard disk. I
> hope this feature does work.
>
> Any one knows if the end user needs to enable it himself ?
>
> Thanks
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