What is the S.M.A.R.T. page?
- by Mads Skjern
I've just listened to Steve Gibson talk about his SpinRite software, on the Security Now podcast episode 336 (transscript).
At 33:20 he says:
I can show and do show on the SMART page that sectors are being
relocated and that errors are being corrected. That SMART analysis
page sometimes scares people because it shows, wait a minute, this
thing says we're correcting so many errors per megabyte.
What is this SMART page?
1) Some information saved on the HD by SMART, that I can access with a SMART tool like smartmontools?
2) A page (tab) in his SpinRite software?
In any case, can I see, in any way, what sectors are marked as bad, without using SpinRite? Preferably using smartmontools!