Reset S.M.A.R.T. data?

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"Darkfalz" <darkfalz@xis.com.au> wrote in message
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> Hello. Is there any utility to reset the S.M.A.R.T. table for enabled
> hard disks? I assume this is stored on some NVRAM on the HD PCB
> itself, not on the platters.
>
> I'm not having any problems with my drives, I'd just like them set
> back to factory defaults.
>

And then sell it as brand new? No 'hours run', 'spin ups' and all that. If a
disk is running okay, doesn't mean all smart values have to be set back to
start.

If you want to reset smart data, you either don't get what smart is about,
or you have bad intentions.

--
Joep

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"Joep" <j o e p @ d i y d a t a r e c o v e r y . n l> wrote in message news:<16530$40b8ab77$3eddca68$852@nf3.news-service-com>...
> "Darkfalz" <darkfalz@xis.com.au> wrote in message
> news:1846066e.0405290542.24a3838a@posting.google.com...
> > Hello. Is there any utility to reset the S.M.A.R.T. table for enabled
> > hard disks? I assume this is stored on some NVRAM on the HD PCB
> > itself, not on the platters.
> >
> > I'm not having any problems with my drives, I'd just like them set
> > back to factory defaults.
> >
>
> And then sell it as brand new? No 'hours run', 'spin ups' and all that. If a
> disk is running okay, doesn't mean all smart values have to be set back to
> start.
>
> If you want to reset smart data, you either don't get what smart is about,
> or you have bad intentions.

That's not the reason at all. I just added a second HD and just wanted
to reset the first one so that they both appeared of equal age *to
me*. I am just kind of obsessed with "defaults" or things being
equal... I guess it's a mild OCD. Thank you for jumping to a stupid
conclusion. Only an idiot would buy a second hand HDD anyway (well,
unless they need a small one for a 486 box or something).

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On 2 Jun 2004 10:06:52 -0700, chris_day_956@hotmail.com (Chris) wrote:

>"Folkert Rienstra" <see_reply-to@myweb.nl> wrote in message news:<2hsdjiFgmgb5U1@uni-berlin.de>...
>> "Darkfalz" <darkfalz@xis.com.au> wrote in message news:1846066e.0405290542.24a3838a@posting.google.com...
>> > Hello. Is there any utility to reset the S.M.A.R.T. table for enabled
>> > hard disks? I assume this is stored on some NVRAM on the HD PCB
>> > itself, not on the platters.
>> >
>> > I'm not having any problems with my drives, I'd just like them set
>> > back to factory defaults.
>> >
>> > Oh they are both DiamondMax Plus 9 drives. I tried both Maxtor
>> > utilities (Powermax and Maxblast) and neither of them had an option to
>> > clear the S.M.A.R.T. table.
>>
>> Gee, wonder why that is.
>> Next you are going to complain why the won't remove drive passwords either.
>
>No, there's no way. Certain attributes (temperature for example) will
>increase back up to 100 (or whatever the manufacturer uses as maximum)
>but the lowest ever value is logged forever in "Worst". Some
>attributes (such as power on time) can only come down.

But we remember that updating IBM 60GXP firmware did reset all smart
data, including power on hours.
--
Svend Olaf

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Hmmm, this is an old thread but I just found it while Googling.

I understand that there are 'bad' reasons for wanting to reset SMART
data, but there is, at least, one good reason. The reason is that
SMART isn't perfect. Evidence for this is the fact that Maxtor have a
utility for one of their drives which resets a specific attribute
because triggers too early.

In my case I have an issue with a Maxtor drive on the same attribute,
but sadly the utility won't reset it for me. My problem is that the
drive is failing on the "spin up count" attribute. When I run
Spinrite I'm told that I should back up my data because drive failure
is 'Imminent'. My SMART monitoring software gives me frequent
warnings about the same thing. The problem is that these utilities
have been giving these warnings for nearly two years and the drive
has worked perfectly. It's not used as a 'main' drive and I only use
it for transitory storage, but I don't see why I should spend money
before I need to. I certainly don't intend to sell the drive.

Because nothing will let me reset the, clearly broken, SMART data I
have to click through warnings all the time which is very annoying.

Dave

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I had a similar problem.

I have a raid card that went bad. One of it's failure modes was to cause a high ecc count in the SMART tables of any attached drive, causing the drives to report as bad, even though they are fine.

Now I have several drives that report a SMART failure on bootup, but SpinRite reports them as just fine. Because of this, I can no longer use these drives in the raid, and had to buy all new drives for the new raid card.

Why is this not a valid reason to want to reset the SMART data?

The drives are fine. It was the raid card that was bad.

So, when joeP says:

"If you want to reset smart data, you either don't get what smart is about, or you have bad intentions. "

He is telling us more about himself than he is of those he accuses being ignorant or of having evil motives.