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Date:	Sun, 4 Jul 2004 22:06:09 PDT7
From:	Tom Brown <thombrown@san.rr.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: On Thin Ice

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This *IS* the program that monitors my SCSI drives... Minimal function,
good/bad, but it does run on SCSI!

J. R. Fox wrote:
> Tom Brown wrote:
>
>
>>OK, I found it! the link was in a note from Dani.
>>
>>http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1BBOD-3L5PT3
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>>This version of HDMON works with SCSI drives, but does not really give
>>you any data, only an indication, via an icon which is either green
>>(good) or flashing red (BAD). From other info that I have fond via
>>Google, SCSI drives don't provide nearly as much info via their
>>S.M.A.R.T. interface as you get for IDE drives. :-(
>
>
> Thanks for the link, Tom. The page does refer only to IDE drives, though . .
> . ?
>
>
>>You can read this info at a commercial site where they sell software to
>>monitor SCSI & IDE SMART drives:
>>
>>http://www.ariolic.com/activesmart/scsi-smart.html
>>
>>Unfortunately, this is a Windoze program, but if you have a windoze
>>partition on the system in question, there *IS* a demo version available!
>
>
> I had two W2K partitions on this system. One was killed stone cold dead by
> SP4, the other is badly compromised. But maybe not *so* badly it can't run
> that demo. A lot of things no longer work on it, though (that 2nd. W2K is a
> mangled mix-'n-match affair, stuck somewhere between SP1 & SP4; it does still
> run Nero, probably the main reason I haven't nuked it yet).

--
Tom Brown
thombrown at san dot rr dot com
Member SCOUG, V.O.I.C.E. & SDAA
running eComStation GA + FP 3
eCS system uptime is 0 days 00:42 hours

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