[Ti] SmartReporter says my drive my fail soon?

[David DelMonte]

Thanks.. I guess SMART doesn't work on IDE or firewire drives?

David


On Apr 18, 2005, at 8:39 AM, Robert Nicholson wrote:

> The instructions to SMART Reporter tell you to launch Disk Utilitiy  
> click on the drive and not the partition and it will tell you what  
> the SMART status is on the last line in the 2nd colum. In my case  
> it was reporting "Failing" in red lettering.
>
> Now of course it's all green in SMART Reporter and SMART Status in  
> D.U. is Verified.
>
> On Apr 18, 2005, at 7:22 AM, David DelMonte wrote:
>
>
>> Where does Disk Utility report that a drive is failing?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>> On Apr 18, 2005, at 8:18 AM, Robert Nicholson wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Of and course now I've done that it's reporting SMART ok now.
>>>
>>> Just how reliable is Smart? Both Disk Utility and SmartReporter  
>>> were reporting
>>> the drive as failing before.
>>>
>>> Are there any other diagnostics I can run on this drive?
>>>
>>> On Apr 18, 2005, at 7:03 AM, Robert Nicholson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Yeah I've got all my data off the drive and I've CCC'd it to  
>>>> another drive as well.
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 18, 2005, at 6:43 AM, ~flipper wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> robert at elastica.com wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Disk Utility also claims S.M.A.R.T status: Failing
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is not good.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What is Apple's policy on SMART status and drive replacement?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> A call to Apple should give an authoritative answer, but I know  
>>>>> what my policy would be: Do a backup, now.
>>>>>
>>>>> ~flipper
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