How to read S.M.A.R.T. attributes in vb ?

[Guest]

Ive been browsing the WINAPI descriptions, but can't seem to find where the
S.M.A.R.T attributes can be read.
I'm trying to read the current Temperature from a S.M.A.R.T. enabled HDD,
and i would like to do this in VB.NET.

 

[Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP]]

I thought it should be possible using WMI but it seems that not:

DOC: WMI: Win32_TemperatureProbe.CurrentReading Is Not Populated
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306852/en-us


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[Guest]

Ya,- i know, I tryed that one , - but still, it must be possible ?

 

[Alex Clark]

Hi,
There was an article about it in VSJ last year I think. I'm pretty sure
that article will be on the web somewhere, though your guess is as good as
mine. What I do recall was that the author implied it was a very imprecise
science and that he only got meaningful information through a process of
trial and error. It's not the smartest thing in the world to use, pardon
the pun ;-)

Cheers,
Alex Clark

 

[Guest]

Ive found an "Old Visual Basic" example on the web, - its seem to base itself
on reading a portion of memory, and then parse it out, However I have not
been successfull in getting the code to run under vb2005.

So I guess i'll keep up the hunt ..........

 

[Guest]

if you are able to post or link to the old code, maybe we can get it to work?