From: Ellen K. 

Thanks!    :)

On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 23:36:16 -0500, "Tony Ingenoso"
 wrote in message :

>SMART originates on the drive itself.  Its a protocol where the system (could
be BIOS, some OS, or app) asks the drive how its
>doing.  Ordinary BIOS or I/O operations that failed at the drive, but
subsequently passed after frobbing by the drive's onboard
>retrys, ECC, recalibrations, sector remapping, etc operations are recorded.
BIOS or the OS doesn't ordinarily see the recovered
>soft failures a drive manages to handle internally.
>
>"Ellen K."  wrote in message
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>> That SMART thing that alerted me to the failing drive, where does it
>> live?   I wanna see whether it's back on the machine now.
>

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