No S.M.A.R.T.???

[J. Jespersen]

In the BIOS of my P5RD1-V Deluxe i have the option of enabling SMART
readings from my harddisks.
In the Boot-up POST screen, it says that both harddisks are SMART Capable
and Enabled.
Both harddisks gave me SMART readings on my old mainboard.
But not on my P5RD1.

Any clues, ideas, hints? Anything at all, anyone?

J.Jespersen
Denmark

 

[Paul]

In the BIOS of my P5RD1-V Deluxe i have the option of enabling SMART
readings from my harddisks.
In the Boot-up POST screen, it says that both harddisks are SMART Capable
and Enabled.
Both harddisks gave me SMART readings on my old mainboard.
But not on my P5RD1.

Any clues, ideas, hints? Anything at all, anyone?

J.Jespersen
Denmark

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http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

* My computer's BIOS has a SMART enable/disable setting.
What does it do, and how should I set it?

Some type of BIOS can check the SMART health status of a disk
at bootup: the equivalent of ' smartctl -H /dev/hd? '. This
one-time check on bootup is done if the BIOS SMART setting is
set to 'ENABLE', and is not done if the setting is set to
'DISABLE'.

If this one-time check is done, and the disk's health status
is found to be 'FAIL', then typically the BIOS will display
an error message and refuse to boot the machine.

For the proper functioning of smartmontools, either BIOS setting
may be used.
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According to that description, the BIOS does not influence
the ability to use SMART.

(If you still feel something needs to be fixed, phone Asus tech
support and file a report with them. Posting on vip.asus.com
is not guaranteed to fix your problem.)

If you can, try using a Microsoft driver for the disk, and see
if a SMART monitoring tool will work with that. Maybe a bad
driver for M1573 Southbridge is the problem ? Do the disks use
a ULI driver, or a Microsoft driver ?

I don't know enough about SMART, to know whether a lack of
transparency in a driver, can stop SMART from working or not.

Paul

 

[Stephan Grossklass]

I don't know enough about SMART, to know whether a lack of
transparency in a driver, can stop SMART from working or not.

Then you might be interested in that it can. With Server 2003 and XP
SP2, things have even become yet more complicated, with drivers allowing
SMART readout before no longer doing this now (needs update from mfr) -
this affects drivers using the SCSI driver stack, like the typical
3rd-party IDE controllers (e.g. Promise Ultra100TX2). But even non-MS
drivers for southbridge IDE/SATA controllers may not always support
SMART readout.

Stephan