Dell Linux Engineering

[Duane Attaway]

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