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Install an enhanced SMART monitoring package
Authored by: DocMan on May 19, '06 10:34:36AM

Can this be used via target disk mode? My Powerbook hard drive has been laid low by I/O errors and now it won't boot. I've yet to find anything that will help me recover the drive enough to determine if it is deceased or just hurting. This has put my primary computer out of commission. My most recent back up is three days prior to when I noticed the problem.

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Install an enhanced SMART monitoring package
Authored by: allanmarcus on May 19, '06 11:16:47AM

Probably not. In Target Disk Mode your PB is a firewire drive, and I don't think FW supports SMART.



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using SMART to check dead disk in PowerBook
Authored by: WinUser on May 22, '06 04:21:29AM

How about this: Have the 'dead' PowerBook boot from an bootable external (FireWire) drive and start the SMART Monitoring tool from that drive, to check the internal disk...
Haven't tried it, but I'd think it would work.



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Install an enhanced SMART monitoring package
Authored by: rong on May 19, '06 02:18:31PM

You're out of luck on two points.

1) No, SMART monitoring doesn't work over firewire.

2) This is a *monitoring* tool to assist in knowing when to take a drive out of service *before* it goes bad.

There is nothing in this tool to assist with *recovering* a drive.



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