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
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 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&#64;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&#64;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" />
 
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