You can easily get all sorts of useful drive information with Speedfan under windows.
Thank you, Patrick!
After trying three different programs to monitor S.M.A.R.T, finally one that works on my computer.
Active@ said my hard drives were not connected.
WD SMART Test saw all of the drives, but would only display data for my System drive -- 80 GB IDE -- and said SMART data was not available for the other four drives.
PassMark would display SMART info for the system drive, not the others. [UPDATE: for whatever reason, it now works properly.] [UPDATE: No, it doesn't.]
SpeedFan works properly right out of the box. And embarassingly, I have had it installed for more than a year now, and had forgotten I had it.
Below are screenshots of the two monitor programs that worked. What does it all mean?
I would suggest you may well have a cable fault. I have found sata connectors to be rather unreliable in the long term,
I will buy a new cable tomorrow.
Does your Esata connector on the PCB come straight off the motherboard, of from a sata port via an internal sata to esata backplane connector?
Cable from motherboard to the inside part of a connector on the back of the computer; then another cable from the outside of the connector to my Vantec dock. I don't know if there are any electronics in the connector, probably not. I think the cable from the motherboard to the connector is integrated, i.e., not separate pieces.
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