Enable SMART

[umarzuki]

How do I enable smart with GA-8N-SLI Rev. 1.0 with F5 BIOS? I afraid that eventhough I changed to another hard disk, the same problem (hard disk failing) will come again.

 

[blackwidow_rsa]

Smart is usually on by default and a motherboard cant really cause a hdd failure.

 

[stoner133]

You enable it in the motherboards BIOS. It is most likely located in the BIOS under the Advanced settings.

Note: SMART does not work with drives in RAID configurations or on drives running in AHCI mode.

 

[umarzuki]

Well, I'd checked everywhere if there's something that mentions SMART but I only found "Enable CPU smart fan". I don't think that related directly to my hard disk.

Even so, what would've caused my SATA hard disk to not be detected even though a few months back it can?

 

[ghmage]

Are you using Vista, per chance?

 

[bourgeoisdude]

I'm not sure about your specific mobo, but SMART is always set from the bios, because it has to be enabled before POST completes. It should be in the same section that shows SATA operation/control mode.

The hard drive wouldn't happen to be a 250GB Western Digital SATA drive would it?

 

[umarzuki]

I'd check that once I got a hold on that PC.

I'm using Debian Etch when that happened (hard disk gradually getting slower on accessing file). That SATA hard disk is a Samsung 80 GB.

 

[Jeff68005]

How do I enable smart with GA-8N-SLI Rev. 1.0 with F5 BIOS? I afraid that eventhough I changed to another hard disk, the same problem (hard disk failing) will come again.

I'm not sure about that motherboard, but when I enter my motherboard, I have to then hold control key and F1 at the same time. Then go review the BIOS settings again.

 

[umarzuki]

thanks, eventhough I solved this a few weeks after my last post.

 

[bilbat]

Just as a point of clarification - S.M.A.R.T. does work with AHCI enabled - at least on the 'd' series Intel based MOBOs...

 

[mikrev007]

I would like to say of course it works. SMART is something that is built into the harddrive. So no matter the hows and whys there will be SMART.