"Arno Wagner" wrote in message
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.

Arno

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

And why should it if all else fails too. It's because of the same reason the others
can't either: missing support in the driver to pass S.M.A.R.T. command to the drive
and the S.M.A.R.T. data to the application.


Then it is an OS issue.

Babblebot, utterly clueless as always

If the OS can access the disk, then the
smartmontools can report the status.

Try again, you moron babblebot.


Arno