Get DFTVIEW

[orawiz 0]

This program will reveal information that DFT collects.

Maybe you will be able to determine whether any blocks have gone bad ...

http://www.cooling-solutions.de/html/artik...dftview_ger.htm

And to display SMART attributes for IDE drives by clicking the task bar ...

http://www.private.peterlink.ru/tochinov/D...DTemp/DTemp.zip

Or for a commercial solution :

http://www.santools.com/smart/eval.html

[HighwayWizard 0]

This program will reveal information that DFT collects.

Maybe you will be able to determine whether any blocks have gone bad ...

http://www.cooling-solutions.de/html/artik...dftview_ger.htm

And to display SMART attributes for IDE drives by clicking the task bar ...

http://www.private.peterlink.ru/tochinov/D...DTemp/DTemp.zip

Or for a commercial solution :

http://www.santools.com/smart/eval.html

the DTemp program has been very calming to me, as sb hit by the death of its IBM 75GXP. The new one's still good for 100% SMART measures!

:-)

and you can be sure that I control it regularly...!

If you want ALL the details, use dftview.

[zxcvb 0]

Sixteen years later...

 

I'm trying to find Stefano Laporta's IBM Drive Fitness Test .blz viewer program "DFTView". Unfortunately the above links are dead. Archive.org saved the pages but not the program itself.

 

Thanks to anyone who can help or who still has a copy of the program.

[laporta 0]

Dear zxcvb,

I attach here a copy of DFTview,  plus a copy of hidesmart, a C program for Linux  written by me, which simply unhides the hidden SMART parameters of IBM/Hitachi disks.

It was  useful to monitor the parameter 230, the "flying head amplitude". Usually this parameter  dropped days before the actual disk crash. It saved me several times. 

Tested for disks up to 1 TB.

 

ibmhitachi.tar.gz