Microsoft KB Archive/260735

= INFO: SMARTVSD Limitations =

Article ID: 260735

Article Last Modified on 2/12/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q260735



SUMMARY
SMARTVSD is used by application programs to acquire S.M.A.R.T data from hard disk drives. There is a limitation on the number of hard disk drives that SMARTVSD can access. This limitation is by design. SMARTVSD was designed to work with primary Integrated Device Electronics (IDEs) and secondary IDE interfaces, thereby limiting the number of hard disk drives that SMARTVSD can access to four hard disk drives.

To support all available hard disk drives in a system, an application should have its own driver to interface with the hard disk. To do this, the driver should use the IOR_IDE_PASS_THROUGH command, and the driver for the IDE controller should also support IOR_IDE_PASS_THROUGH.

Additional query words: SMARTVSD

Keywords: kbfaq kbinfo KB260735

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