On May 7, 2006, at 3:44 PM, betty wrote: > also, i have s.m.a.r.t. turned off, should i have it 'one'???? When the hard drive on my Powerbook failed, the SMART diagnostics warned me before the disk became unusable. I made sure I had full backups, and then replaced the drive. Pretty darn painless, really. I'm not sure if there are any special caveats for SMART and Linux, but I was happy to have them turned on in that case. . --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss