P5W prevents s.m.a.r.t info from being read?

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I've got a problem. Right now I'm using a 150gb raptor and four seagate .10 320gb drives. I've got them all hooked up to the P5W DH Deluxe with one on the jmicron and one on the easysata. I wanted to check the health of the drives with SeaTools but when I load it up via floppy, it freezes on 'detecting'. So I'm assuming its a problem reading from the jmicron or the ezsata. My question is, what pci sata cards are you using with your P5W and is there a difference in speed between the onboard jmicron and a pci port sata card that would meet my needs? (no raid)

 

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I have a P5W-DH and a pair of 320GB Seagate 7200.10s running directly off the ICH7R, and it reads the SMART data just fine from within Windows.

 

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That's very interesting. I'm not sure what the problem is. Maybe the S.M.A.R.T monitoring program that I'm using isn't very good? I've been using a trial version of activesmart, does anyone have any other suggestions on programs of this nature?

 

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[soydios]

I used some hard drive health monitor widget for Google Desktop. It reported drive temperature and status, nothing fancy.