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Added details of BIOS SMART settings to FAQ

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<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>
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<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'.
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<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.
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<p>
For the proper functioning of smartmontools, either BIOS setting may
be used.
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Maintained by: <a href="mailto:smartmontools-support&#64;lists.sourceforge.net">Bruce Allen</a><br />
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