[Ti] SMART status failing: travelstar... upgrade?

[Chris Olson]

On Nov 21, 2004, at 4:20 PM, Lisbeth Zachs wrote:

> And what is the conclusion when I get the answer below?: (Or is it 
> because I have two partitions on the HD that it is failing in reading 
> SMART.

I'm guessing that's the case.  Just out of curiosity, what does Apple's 
(GUI) Disk Utility tell you?  You could have some bad (unreadable) 
blocks on the platter that the OS has marked "bad", and they're not 
being used too.

The diskutil command line utility seems to give inaccurate info on 
whether or not a partition is bootable if it can't found a mount point 
(which should be /) on the internal drive.  I'm suspecting it's a bug 
in that utility.

If you type "man diskutil" at the command line you can read about all 
the different options and things that diskutil has and does.
--
Chris