On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Bob McElrath wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Aaron Tiensivu wrote:
>
> > > Much of the SMART values are custom for each drive. I have asked members
> > > of the IDE committee (specifically, the individuals involved in writing
> > > the SMART specification) for explanation of SMART values and have received
> > > deafening silence in reply.
> > > You can try writing them too but dont expect a response. They are
> > > mark.evans@quantum.com and pete_mclean@maxtor.com
> >
> > IBM might be able to help out, considering they initially wrote it (if I
> > remember right).
>
> I too have tried to contact IBM on this issue, and have received deafening
> silence. I get errors that appear in syslog that I'm fairly certain come
> from SMART, but I've no idea how to decode them.
>
> I'd be very interested in anything you come up with.
>
> -- Bob
>
> "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
> temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
> -- Benjamin Franklin
>
> Bob McElrath (rsmcelrath@students.wisc.edu) Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison
>
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Andre Hedrick
The Linux IDE guy
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APC UPS Daemon Support Center.
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GPLed source on April 7, 1999
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