SMART monitoring

[me at mattgillen.net (Matthew Gillen)]

Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> Some verions of BIOS permit SMART monitoring of hard drives (may give
> the option to enable/disable it).
> 
> Can anyone think of a reason/situation where enabling it can cause
> problems?

I've never had problems.  I've mostly used it with Seagate drives.

> I'm a believer that if BIOS offers it, I always enable it.
> Is that wrong?

Seems reasonable for most options.  On the other hand, I've had several
instances where certain BIOS settings made the system unstable.

> Do all kinds of drives, now, have the potential to incorporate SMART -
> SCSI, IDE, SATA, SAS?

Every IDE drive nowadays has SMART I think.  SATA drives also have it, but
the linux tools don't support them yet.  Don't know about SCSI or SAS drives.

Matt

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