From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 3 15:22:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30AA716A4CE for ; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 15:22:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C936243D45 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 15:22:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) id i83FM8dM089211; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 10:22:08 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 10:22:08 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Angelin Lalev Message-ID: <20040903152208.GD46994@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3FF522D1.1010405@sv-bg.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FF522D1.1010405@sv-bg.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA2 X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what is S.M.A.R.T and do I need it when I'm using freebsd (5.x...) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 15:22:10 -0000 In the last episode (Jan 02), Angelin Lalev said: > It seems that the bios setup utility on my desktop machine (MB. > GA-8IPE1000-G Pro) does not support turning on S.M.A.R.T. > > I remember that long ago I've read somewhere in the net that > S.M.A.R.T has to do something with remapping the bad sectors on the > IDE drive similar to the way SCSI controller should do it, but > probably I've got it wrong... SMART is a system where you can poll the disk for status info like temperature, number of corrected reads, self-test results, etc. Bad block remapping will get done by the drive whether you use SMART to monitor it or not. > So, what is S.M.A.R.T, does FreeBSD use it, and should it be turned > on trough the bios setup utility? It's not really a BIOS thing. It depends on the hard drives you have. You can install the smartmontools port to monitor SMART data for both SCSI and ATA disks. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com