From: "Tony Ingenoso" 

I think IBM originated the idea.  It was on a 3.2G deskstar I bought back
around 95'.  No BIOS support then of course, but there was an OS/2 utility
that did the reporting.

"Ellen K."  wrote in message
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> I gotta going into the BIOS on a reboot and see if I can see it.
>
> Does MS make this, or where did it come from?
>
> On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 11:01:08 -0500, "Frank Haber"
>  wrote in message :
>
> >Did you get that?  It lives on the drive, and the opsys gets messages from a
> >failing drive and tells you when the errors get beyond a certain point.
> >Most HD vendors offer a util to turn it off, if you're crazy enough to want
> >that.
> >
> >I've personally seen SMART save users' butts 20-30 times.  You usually get a
> >couple of hours/days to notice the warnings, then boom.  Some people have no
> >luck and go boom before SMART can do anything useful.
> >
> >(Sorry, I'm infantile today.  I've been playing uncle this weekend.)
> >
>

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