Dell Linux Engineering

[Tom Bruno]

Duane Attaway wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Tom Bruno wrote:
>
>> website, it says YOU MUST disable COMPAQ SMART support in your bios 
>> or risk drive failure.  This is a default option is set to enabled on 
>> most motherboards, and new pc's.
>
>
> WTF?  How would the SMART communications to the drive wreck a drive?
>
> Next I'll see, "running a virus checker on this computer may overheat 
> the CPU and cause it to catch fire, burning down your house, and 
> catching the whole city of Chicago to burst into flames."
>
> -=Duane
> http://dattaway.org

I have no idea, but i still have that 7th drive, and it's still chugging 
away.  the 7th drive was having all kinds of problems, so i took it out 
of the pc and sat it on the shelf,  When i read that one day, i disabled 
compaq smart support, and put the drive back in. been working now for 2 
years.