Previously Arno Wagner wrote:
Previously Nick wrote:
On Apr 9, 8:37 am, Arno Wagner wrote:
Previously Nick wrote:
Dear all,
I've been trying to find a software to monitor my HDDs with S.M.A.R.T.
However, none of the softwares I tried can detect the S.M.A.R.T.
information. I tried:
- HDD Life
- HD Tune
- Sandra
- Lavalys
- PC Wizard...
My config is is follows:
- Motherboard: Gigabyte: GA-K8U-939
- SATA Controller: Silicon Image SiI 3114 SoftRaid 5 Controller
- Windows XP Pro SP2
Sometimes the software detects the HDD, sometimes not. However, I can
never read the S.M.A.R.T. information.
Is there any good software that works out there ?

The smartmontools. Ported over from Linux. Commandline,
which means you can script stuff. And free.

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I tried those.. and they apparently also did not detect my HDDs or
SMART info.

Then it is an OS issue. If the OS can access the disk, then the
smartmontools can report the status.

Hmm. Come to think of it, maybe the OS remaps these disks as
SCSI disks? Then there is no interface functionality to
query SMART.

Arno