From: Bill Morrow (marrow_at_adelphia.net)
Date: Fri Apr 26 2002 - 16:13:31 EDT
i have used an older version..
worked too well..!
this is why ibm got back some deskstar drives that it warned me about..
:-)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Deanna Berman" <dberman_at_dimensional.com>
To: "Krishna Dayanidhi" <krsnad_at_yahoo.com>; "Bill Morrow"
<marrow_at_adelphia.net>; <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: T21 Harddrive, DFT Result
> Have you tried Smart Defender? (I never have -- is anyone here
> familiar enough with it to comment?) Downloadable from
> http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/download.htm, it is described
> as:
>
> SMART Defender is an easy to use Windows program that monitors SMART
> capable IDE and SCSI hard disk drives. The program reduces the risk of
> system down time by assessing the reliability and predicting hard disk
> drive failures. SMART Defender is a replacement for EZSMART.
>
> Deanna Berman
> dberman_at_dimensional.com
>
>
>
> > > what do you think IBM will tell you when you say
> > > that DFT reported
> > > "Excessive Shock" as this means that the HDD has
> > > been dropped or otherwise
> > > subjected to excessive shock..?!
> >
> > Well, I dont know how IBM will react, but I definitely
> > know that the hard drive or the machine have never
> > been dropped *ever*.
> > The thinkpad always gets carried in a bag which has
> > one of the suspended cradles.
> >
> > And most of them time it sits on a desk.
> >
> > I dont know how it could ever have had excessive
> > shock.
> >
> > I tried booting up the machine later and it took about
> > 20 minutes to boot up win2k. It was almost as if it
> > was reading off a floppy.
> >
> > I removed the drive and put it back again and it works
> > now. Although it still is making an ocassional
> > clicking noise, it booted up in average time.
> >
> > I wonder how much I have before the hdd completely
> > dies.
> >
> > Thanks a lot,
> > --krishna
>
>
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