Re: SMART problem in Win7PESE

At 11:04 AM 02/01/2015, Christian Franke wrote:
>Thane Sherrington wrote:
>>I've been using smartctl in a BartPE/UBCD4Win environment for years,
>>and it works great (provided I switch AHCI to IDE before booting to PE).
>>
>>Now I'm trying Win7PESE, and I'm getting random failures like the one
>>below.
>
>Are the failures actually "random"? Do different runs of smartctl 
>return different results?

Sorry, they seem to track to specific drives on specific computers, 
but I don't see a pattern yet.

>The above suggests that the IDE driver lacks full pass-through 
>functionality (IOCTL_ATA_PASS_THROUGH). Try with -r ioctl,2 to see 
>which IOCTL is used (PLEASE use attachments for sample outputs).
>
>IOCTL_ATA_PASS_THROUGH is supported by the generic MS IDE drivers 
>since XP and by the generic MS AHCI driver since Vista.
>
>Please check in device manager which driver is used for the (which?) 
>SATA controller. Switching to AHCI mode may provide better results.

Ok, I'll do some driver checks.  Thanks!

T 




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