From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Oct 1 3: 4:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-176-106.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.176.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D66CB37B503 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 03:04:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e919Q3h01989; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 02:26:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200010010926.e919Q3h01989@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Andreas Klemm Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tired of bad qulaity hardware In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 01 Oct 2000 10:50:50 +0200." <20001001105050.A34037@titan.klemm.gtn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 02:26:02 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message