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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:04:46 -0500
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Subject: Re: Updated on UDMA BadCRC errors + subsequent problems (was: Is it safe to ignore UDMA BadCRC errors?)
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John Bradford writes:
 > Some motherboard BIOSes disable S.M.A.R.T. on drives connected to
 > their on-board controllers on each boot.  Quite possibly some PCI IDE
 > cards do as well.  It's possible, (but probably not likely), that by
 > trying the drive on different controllers a BIOS somewhere has
 > disabled S.M.A.R.T.

The error occurred at least a week after the drive was moved to its
current controller.  In that week both the drive and smartd ran just
fine with no errors.

  jik
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