I have a HP media center PC that came with a Hitachi SCSI hard drive and none of the SMART programs I've tried to date such as DriveSitter, Active Smart, Smart & Simple, Disk Checkup, Harddrive Health, support it.
Originally posted by sammorris:Wow, a prebuilt PC that comes with a SCSI drive, not something you see every day... Does the hard disk support SMART?
When I bought the drive it the material said it was SATA 300... but Windows Device Manager says it's a Hitachi SCSI drive. I have no idea whether it can be both. When I installed DriveSitter I got a popup saying it could not detect any IDE drive. I called Hitachi and they don't have the model number on file!!! They sent me a link to an ancient SMART utility that didn't work. Their own SMART utility is no longer available.
Originally posted by sammorris: Have you tried using Speedfan's built in SMART utility?
SATA drives often get nicknamed SCSI drives when they're not...
Speedfan shows nothing under the SMART tab. Guess I'll have to pull the drive to see what the labels actually say.
Finally a lead that answers why my SATA drive shows up as SCSI... and why I'm not getting any SMART data from my hard drive. It's the nVidia chipset. What morons!
Ugh, yet another reason not to own an nvidia chipset. Some 650i boards out there aren't even compatible with vista, and they're not exactly old either.
