[Discuss] Fedora 8 and new system works straight out of the box.

[Murray Strome]

R. Langkamer wrote:
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>     I would add, that the built-in smart status reporting inside bios' 
> and OS' is in adequate. Compile/install the recent smart tools and use 
> that to get a real report.
>     I have a client on a (now) older G5 PowerMac. The internal hard 
> drive that came with the computer is a SATA 160GB and I discovered, 
> through the use of smart tools, that the drive was failing. The 
> information reported by Disk Utility (Apple's disk management 
> software), only said "verified" which is the same as an "overall" 
> smart status report will say even though the actual short and long 
> tests failed to complete. In short, the drive was failing and only 
> smart tools was able to provide clear and accurate information 
> detailing as such.
>
>     For the benefit of others, don't trust what the bios or the OS 
> say, trust the correct tool. :)
>
Could you provide a link for these tools?  Thanks.

Murray