It's part of the BIOS and the drive; it's certainly in the newer bioses
that I have.

It's quite possible that turning S.M.A.R.T. on in the bios merely sends
a command to the drive.

Any IDE drive experts out there?

-Mike


On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Ken Hornstein wrote:

> From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
> Subject: Re: I have a lot off soft errors on my IDE disks ( and now the
>     new one also)

> I don't think SMART is a feature of your BIOS (it certainly isn't in
> any of the BIOSes that I've seen); that's more like a feature of the drive.
> Maybe atactl should be extended to turn that on and off.
>
> --Ken