How do you reset SMART?

[Tempest8008]

I have a Quantum Bigfoot 19.1TS hard drive, one of the big 5.25" ones. It's SMART capable, and is giving a rather dire warning advising me to backup and replace the drive.
The machine I have is a hand me down, and when I got it there were a few bad sectors.

So here's what I did...

First off, I Fdisk'd the drive. Didn't fix the problem.
I used a couple of third party pieces of software to determine the bad sectors, and then performed a bit-by-bit rewrite of the platters.
Heard of Spinrite? I ran that a couple of times over the disk after restoring the sectors and it had no problem doing an exhaustive (24hrs to do the darn test!) set of exercises and it pronounced the drive to be working fine.
I've used it for the past 6 months with no errors, no bad sectors, and nothing new going wrong with it. I just get the SMART errors during each bootup.

So now I'm using some diagnostic software to determine what SMART is saying. The "Reallocated Sector Count" is right at the threshold, causing the error to pop-up. I need to reset that, and then my disk will be golden again. It's out of warranty, but it's a good size (19.1GB) and I don't want to junk it 'cause I figure there's nothing REALLY wrong with it.

I have yet to find some software that can reset those values. I've heard that it's possible that the Partition Table in the MBR could contain the data that SMART is reading, if so, doing an fdisk /MBR should correct the problem, or leave me with a nice paperweight.

Anyone have any directions they can point me in?
Any software they can recommend?
Any other ideas?

Thanks in advance,

The Temp

 

[Snickle]

SMART for hard drives is enabled/disabled in the BIOS. A low-level format may clear up your problems but may not. It probably is time to retire the drive, especially since 20GB drives are available on the 'Net for $60-$80. The Bigfoot developed quite a reputation for being the slowest of drives in the less-than-6GB category, never worked with any larger than that. Maxtor bought Quantum so try their site.

 

[Tempest8008]

Already been to Maxtor for info on my Quantum, but no joy.
I have an HP 8495 that this drive is in, and the BIOS doesn't have the choice to turn off SMART.

And I live in Canada, so your $60-$80 becomes, like, a couple of thousand for a 20GB drive.

(Just kidding, I know a place where I can get a 20GB drive for $119CDN).

This is just a project machine, there's nothing life-or-death about the problem...it's just annoying.

 

[guggle]

Just get rid of it. The bigfoots used to come in some of the older Compaq Deskpro machines and were notorious for dieing within the first year. If you've had one last longer than that, consider yourself lucky!!!