Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 02:26:02 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tired of bad qulaity hardware Message-ID: <200010010926.e919Q3h01989@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 Oct 2000 10:50:50 %2B0200." <20001001105050.A34037@titan.klemm.gtn.com>
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> BTW2, does somebody know, if enabling S.M.A.R.T. (default: disabled)
> on the IBM drive has some performance impact ? And what does it exactly
> do ? Why is it disabled by default, if it seems useful ?
It should be harmless. I'm assuming it can be disabled in the odd case
where someone has a piece of software that insists on sending random crap
to the drive and doesn't like it when it accidentally sends a SMART
command.
There might be a better reason, but I've yet to see it mentioned.
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