Re: DMA question

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Its a troll. SMART is automatically enabled for those hard drives with that
capacity in the bios. i It has to be manually disabled in the bios.

--
Dave

Apathy and denial are close cousins
"JS" <@> wrote in message news:O7HwXiBjHHA.4904@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
SMART is a method that monitors the hard disk health. A drive that has
problems will usually (but not always) report smart status issues.

You most likely need to change your BIOS settings to enable smart.
There are utilities that also report your hard drive status.
See: http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

JS

"Roman King" <machocraig@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eoZUhPBjHHA.596@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
A newbie's query: During booting, I see the following line on the
screen:

Ultra DMA mode -5, S.M.A.R.T. capable but disabled.

I have no idea what this means. Should I enable SMART?
If so, how? Thanks you. Roman







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