Re: SMART failure message does not stay disabled on Win XP laptop

Christian Franke <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.utilities.smartmontools
Message-ID <[email protected]>
H/B wrote:
> I'm a newbie, trying to disable a Hitachi HD failure message with 
> smartmontools. After selecting the menu example of "smartctl -s off 
> sda" and running the attributes, the Smart function is disabled, but 
> when I restart the laptop, the failure message reappears and 
> smartmontools shows it has been enabled again. I can't find this FAQ 
> in the archives, so what am I doing wrong?

The SMART check of BIOS may re-enable SMART feature set (like 'smartctl 
-s on -H /dev/ice').

Try to disable the SMART check in BIOS settings itself.

BTW: It is not a good idea to ignore the SMART FAILED status.

Christian


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