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Date:	Sat, 5 Oct 2002 09:07:00 PST7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: New DaniS506 breaks IDE Secondary channel drive error reporting

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Mark Abramowitz wrote:
>
> I wasn't aware of hdmon.exe! How is it used?

Hard drives self-monitor themselves and accumulate information on seek
errors, etc. There are special commands that you can send to each drive
which will return the accumulated self-monitoring info. This is how
HDMON.EXE and SmartMon work -- they ask the drive how it is, and it
answers.

HDMON and SmartMon don't change anything. They just report what each
drive knows about itself.

HDMON.EXE displays a "green" indication for each drive that's "okay" and
a "red" indication for each drive that "isn't okay". (With DaniS506
v151 the colors sometimes don't display.)

Run HDMON and look at the display. If you want, put a shadow of it in
your Startup folder (I do this). Click on Options and then
Configuration to set the time interval between checks (I use 15
minutes).

SmartMon reports the drive statistics in detail whereas HDMON just shows
a green/red indication of drive health. I have both running; both are
shadows in my Startup folder although I wrote a .cmd file for SmartMon
which displays all four drives in one window and updates itself once
every six hours.

I highly recommend running *both*:

\OS2\HDMON.EXE
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/disk/smartmon.zip

- Peter

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