I'd love to know if anyone finds any solution to this as well. I am not aware of one.
Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Jan 7, 2013, at 3:11 PM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote: > So has anyone figured out a good way to get the SMART notifications out of > hard drives? The SMART reports are an early warning system where the drive > controller can notify the host that a drive is getting ready to fail. As far > as I know OSX keeps this info to itself. You can inspect the current state > using Disk Utility where it will say "S.M.A.R.T Status Verified" but nothing > will prompt you when that happens to change to "Failing". You can also get it > from the terminal by typing > > diskutil info disk0 | grep SMART > > I played with > > http://www.corecode.at/smartreporter/ > > but I didn't find it very accessible, but that was the 2.7.x version and > there is a non-free 3.x version now. > > CB > > On 12/10/12 10:42 PM, Kristeen Hughes wrote: >> To Mike and anyone else who remembers that I had a problem with one of my >> minis, I now know what it is. I took it into the Apple store today in the >> hard drive has failed. So I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the >> problem, but I wouldn't have been able to do that. It took it about three >> weeks to actually fail. The guy at the store says sometimes that happens. >> I'm just very fortunate that it is still under warrantee, because that is >> and expense I can't afford right now. >> >> Anyway thank you to those who try to assist me during my many questions. >> >> Kristeen >> > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
