On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My wife's box has a very intermittent problem, when booting from the
> Maxtor IDE hard drive. This has been going on for about 2 1/2
> years.... The box is a Compaq EVO D300v for the Enterprise. When it
> boots, there is a SMART advisory from the BIOS that says failure is
> immenient. Occasionally, it will not boot, because the BIOS does not
> see the hard drive. I replaced the EIDE cable, but the problem of
After I posted this yesterday, I turned my wife loose on her computer
and it choked. Possibly a coincidence, after receiving SMART warnings
for a couple of years, and it was ready to die. Thought I had 2 used
hard drives, in perfect condition, but the first one I installed
turned out to be DOA and now the other one is installed.. :-)
Thanks to everyone who replied. As Mark (MHR) wrote, I too was
skeptical of the SMART warnings from the BIOS and when I checked on
the Compaq Support site, a couple of years ago, I was told the Compaq
BIOS is very sensitive and there are a lot of false warnings. However,
after checking the bad hard drive with smartctl yesterday, I am a
believer in SMART warnings....
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