Andrew Burton [aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk] wrote:
Limited number of power cycles? Is there any way to
know what
this figure started off at? And better yet, a way to reset it? :)
Most modern drives support SMART ... and some of them (but not all)
even correctly count and report the number of power cycles.
UBCD has a range of disk diagnostic tools, modern Linux variants
have smarttools, you can track down any number of disk monitoring
tools for Windows.
Antonio