> 3) There should be no bad effect from enabling smart, except if the BIOS > insists on not booting because of a bad RAID disk. (That's why I like > to disable it in the BIOS) With a couple of exceptions unfortunately. Belongs in udev and smartd so its controllable and flexible (and also swappable). Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html