From 77c1ac8e43d5e7d18da7a55efa655ad8f4eb579d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ballen4705 <ballen4705@4ea69e1a-61f1-4043-bf83-b5c94c648137> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 06:19:03 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added details of BIOS SMART settings to FAQ git-svn-id: https://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/smartmontools/trunk@1237 4ea69e1a-61f1-4043-bf83-b5c94c648137 --- www/index.html | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/www/index.html b/www/index.html index a60131322..35106e193 100644 --- a/www/index.html +++ b/www/index.html @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head> - <title>smartmontools Home Page (last updated $Date: 2003/10/31 12:10:19 $)</title> + <title>smartmontools Home Page (last updated $Date: 2003/11/16 06:19:03 $)</title> <link rev="made" href="mailto:smartmontools-support@sourceforge.net" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> <meta name="description" content="smartmontools Home Page" /> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ </head> <body> -<!-- $Id: index.html,v 1.103 2003/10/31 12:10:19 ballen4705 Exp $ --> +<!-- $Id: index.html,v 1.104 2003/11/16 06:19:03 ballen4705 Exp $ --> <div align="center"><h1><font color="#3333ff">smartmontools Home Page</font></h1></div> <p>Welcome! This is the home page for the smartmontools package.</p> @@ -583,6 +583,28 @@ disk. </li> +<li><b>My computer's BIOS has a SMART enable/disable setting. What +does it do, and how should I set it?</b> +<p> +Some type of BIOS can check the SMART health status of a disk at +bootup: the equivalent of '<tt>smartctl -H /dev/hd?</tt>'. This one-time check on +bootup is done if the BIOS SMART setting is set to 'ENABLE', and is +not done if the setting is set to 'DISABLE'. +</p> + +<p> +If this one-time check is done, and the disk's health status is found +to be 'FAIL', then typically the BIOS will display an error message +and refuse to boot the machine. +</p> + +<p> +For the proper functioning of smartmontools, either BIOS setting may +be used. +</p> +</li> + + </ul> @@ -773,8 +795,8 @@ from smartmontools smartctl utility:</b> <hr size="2" /> Maintained by: <a href="mailto:smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net">Bruce Allen</a><br /> -Last updated: <tt>$Date: 2003/10/31 12:10:19 $</tt><br /> -CVS tag: <tt>$Id: index.html,v 1.103 2003/10/31 12:10:19 ballen4705 Exp $</tt> +Last updated: <tt>$Date: 2003/11/16 06:19:03 $</tt><br /> +CVS tag: <tt>$Id: index.html,v 1.104 2003/11/16 06:19:03 ballen4705 Exp $</tt> <hr size="2" /> -- GitLab