Hard Disk Drive Monitor ======================= Version 2.0 (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1996. All rights reserved. Description =========== The Hard Disk Drive Monitor uses Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (SMART) to monitor the status of physical drives in the computer. A hard disk drive must be SMART-compatible for the Hard Disk Drive Monitor to be able to detect potential failures in that drive. If the Hard Disk Drive Monitor indicates that a drive has a potential failure condition, you should back up that drive immediately, to avoid losing valuable software and data if the drive actually fails. However, the Hard Disk Drive Monitor is not to be used as a substitute for regular backups of the drive and might not detect all predicatable failure conditions. Hard disk drives can fail for reasons that are not predictable by the Hard Disk Drive Monitor. In some situations, the Hard Disk Drive Monitor will not detect a potential failure condition soon enough to allow you to back up the drive before it fails. The Hard Disk Drive Monitor works with SMART-compatible hard disk drives. The Hard Disk Drive Monitor screen displays a Drive icon for each hard disk drive being monitored. The colored indicator on each Drive icon indicates the status of that drive. A green indicator means that the drive is reporting a good status. A red indicator means that a potential failure (Alert) condition has been detected. A gray indicator means that the drive is not SMART-compatible or is not controlled by the correct device driver (see "System Requirements"). If an Alert condition is detected, the Alert panel is displayed, and an Alert beep sounds. You should immediately back up the drive to avoid losing data that is more recent than your most recent periodic backup. Important: ========= You should always perform regular backups of data to avoid data loss. The Hard Disk Drive Monitor detects only possible failure conditions that can be detected by monitoring certain hard-disk-drive components. Drives can fail for many reasons other than those that can be predicted by the Hard Disk Drive Monitor. Installation ============ The Installation program (HD_INST.CMD) can be run from any OS/2 command prompt and installs the Hard Disk Drive Monitor onto your hard disk. It creates a folder on your Desktop containing the Hard Disk Drive Monitor icon, an Uninstall icon, and a README icon. Opening the README icon displays this text file. Use the Uninstall icon to remove the Hard Disk Drive Monitor from your hard disk. Before installing the program, verify that the target drive has enough space to install the program (approximately 200 KB). Syntax: hd_install [[] [