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| 4 | <h3><a name="smartmontools"></a><strong>Smartmontools resources</strong></h3> |
| 5 | <ul class="Square"> |
| 6 | <li><a href="http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/">Smartmontools Homepage</a></li> |
| 7 | <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/">SourceForge's Project Page</a></li> |
| 8 | |
| 9 | <li><a href="http://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/smartmontools">SVN repository</a></li> |
| 10 | <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/">Trac / Wiki</a></li> |
| 11 | </ul> |
| 12 | <hr /> |
| 13 | |
| 14 | <h3><a name="tools-with-smartmontools"></a><strong>Monitoring tools working with smartmontools</strong></h3> |
| 15 | <ul class="Square"> |
| 16 | <li><a href="http://munin.projects.linpro.no/"> |
| 17 | <img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Munin</a></li> |
| 18 | |
| 19 | <li><a href="http://gsmartcontrol.berlios.de/home/index.php/About"> |
| 20 | <img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />GSmartControl</a></li> |
| 21 | |
| 22 | </ul> |
| 23 | <hr /> |
| 24 | |
| 25 | <h3><a name="other-tools"></a><strong>Other open source hard disk monitoring projects</strong></h3> |
| 26 | <ul class="Square"> |
| 27 | <li><a href="http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html"> |
| 28 | <img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />CrystalDiskInfo</a></li> |
| 29 | |
| 30 | </ul> |
| 31 | <hr /> |
| 32 | |
| 33 | <ul class="High"> |
| 34 | <li><a name="reliability"></a><strong>Studies / Background on reliability</strong></li> |
| 35 | </ul> |
| 36 | <ul class="Circle"> |
| 37 | <li> |
| 38 | <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9073158"> |
| 39 | <img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Vendor disk |
| 40 | failure rates: Myth or metric?</a>, Mary Brandel in <i>Computerworld</i>, April 2008. |
| 41 | </li> |
| 42 | |
| 43 | <li> |
| 44 | <a href="http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=506"> |
| 45 | <img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Hard Disk Drives: |
| 46 | The Good, The Bad and The Ugly</a>, Jon Elerath (Network Appliance) in <i>ACM Queue vol 5, no 6</i>, |
| 47 | pg 28-37, September 2007.<br /><br /> |
| 48 | </li> |
| 49 | <li>From the USENIX FAST Conferences |
| 50 | <ul class="Circle"> |
| 51 | <li> |
| 52 | |
| 53 | <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/fast08/tech/full_papers/jiang/jiang_html/index.html"> |
| 54 | <img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Are Disks the |
| 55 | Dominant Contributor for Storage Failures? A Comprehensive Study of Storage Subsystem Failure |
| 56 | Characteristics</a>, Weihang Jiang, Chongfeng Hu, Yuanyuan Zhou, Arkady Kanevsky in <i>6th USENIX |
| 57 | Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '08)</i>, pg 111-125, February 2008. |
| 58 | </li> |
| 59 | <li> |
| 60 | <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/fast07/tech/schroeder/schroeder_html/index.html"> |
| 61 | <img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " /> |
| 62 | Disk Failures in the Real World: What does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean to you?</a>, |
| 63 | Bianca Schroeder, Garth A. Gibson (Carnegie Mellon University) in<i> 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage |
| 64 | Technologies (FAST '07)</i>, pg 1-16, February 2007. |
| 65 | </li> |
| 66 | |
| 67 | <li> |
| 68 | <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/fast07/tech/full_papers/pinheiro/pinheiro_html/index.html"> |
| 69 | <img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Failure Trends in |
| 70 | a Large Disk Drive Population</a>, Eduardo Pinheiro, Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Luiz André |
| 71 | Barroso (Google Inc.) in <i>5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '07)</i>, |
| 72 | pg 17-28, February 2007.<br /><br /> |
| 73 | </li> |
| 74 | </ul> |
| 75 | |
| 76 | </li> |
| 77 | <li><u>Specifying Reliability in the Disk Drive Industry: No More |
| 78 | MTBF's</u>, Jon G. Elerath (IBM Storage Systems Division)<br /> |
| 79 | <font size="-1">in Proceedings of the IEEE 2000 Annual Reliability and Maintainability |
| 80 | Symposium, pg 194, 0-7803-5848-1/00/$10.00.</font><br /> |
| 81 | <br /></li> |
| 82 | <li>From the Seagate Corporation |
| 83 | <ul class="Circle"> |
| 84 | <!-- <li><a href="http://www.seagate.com/newsinfo/docs/disc/drive_reliability.pdf" target="_blank"> |
| 85 | Estimating Drive Reliability in Desktop Computers and Consumer Electronics Systems</a></li> --> |
| 86 | <li><a href="http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/whitepaper/enhanced_smart.pdf" target="_blank"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Enhanced |
| 87 | SMART - Get SMART For Reliability</a></li> |
| 88 | <li><a href="http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/whitepaper/smart_u8.pdf" target="_blank"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Playing |
| 89 | it SMART</a> |
| 90 | |
| 91 | (<a href="http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/smart.html" target="_blank"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />HTML Version</a>)</li> |
| 92 | <li><a href="http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/whitepaper/Enhanced_DST_Tech_Paper.pdf" target="_blank"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Enhanced Drive Self-Test</a><br /> |
| 93 | <br /></li> |
| 94 | </ul> |
| 95 | </li> |
| 96 | |
| 97 | <li>From the <a href="http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/smart/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />UCSD SMART Project</a> |
| 98 | |
| 99 | <ul class="Circle"> |
| 100 | <li><a href="http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/smart/tech_papr/HamerlySmartPaper.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Bayesian |
| 101 | Approaches to Failure Prediction for Disk Drives</a></li> |
| 102 | <li><a href="http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/smart/tech_papr/SmtPapTransReliFinalWeb.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Improved |
| 103 | Disk-Drive Failure Warnings</a></li> |
| 104 | </ul> |
| 105 | </li> |
| 106 | </ul> |
| 107 | <hr /> |
| 108 | |
| 109 | <ul class="High"> |
| 110 | <li><a name="references"></a><strong>Useful references on SMART and the ATA/ATAPI standards</strong></li> |
| 111 | |
| 112 | </ul> |
| 113 | <ul class="Circle"> |
| 114 | <li><a href="http://smartlinux.sourceforge.net/smart/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Zbigniew Chlondowski's SMART Information Site.</a> |
| 115 | This includes a useful list of <a href="http://smartlinux.sourceforge.net/smart/attributes.php"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Attributes |
| 116 | and their meanings.</a> |
| 117 | </li> |
| 118 | <li>The <a href="http://www.t13.org"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />homepage of the T13 project</a>.</li> |
| 119 | <li>The <a href="http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/project/d2008r7b-ATA-3.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />ATA-3 |
| 120 | revision 7b (working draft)</a> (last specification of SMART Attributes and Thresholds, |
| 121 | removed before final standard was published!)</li> |
| 122 | |
| 123 | <li>The <a href="http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/project/d1153r18-ATA-ATAPI-4.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />ATA/ATAPI-4 |
| 124 | revision 18 (final draft)</a> (SMART Attributes and Thresholds no longer specified)</li> |
| 125 | <li>The <a href="http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/project/d1321r3-ATA-ATAPI-5.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />ATA/ATAPI-5 |
| 126 | revision 3 (final draft)</a> (start with Section 8.41)</li> |
| 127 | <li>The <a href="http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/project/d1410r3b-ATA-ATAPI-6.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />ATA/ATAPI-6 |
| 128 | revision 3b (final draft)</a></li> |
| 129 | <li>The <a href="http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2007/D1532v1r4b-AT_Attachment_with_Packet_Interface_-_7_Volume_1.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />ATA/ATAPI-7 |
| 130 | revision 4b (final draft) Volume 1</a> (has SMART documentation), |
| 131 | <a href="http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2007/D1532v2r4b-AT_Attachment_with_Packet_Interface_-_7_Volume_2.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Volume 2</a>, |
| 132 | <a href="http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2007/D1532v3r4b-AT_Attachment_with_Packet_Interface_-_7_Volume_3.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Volume 3</a></li> |
| 133 | |
| 134 | <li>The <a href="http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2008/D1699r6a-ATA8-ACS.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />ATA/ATAPI-8 |
| 135 | Command Set (ACS) revision 6a (final draft)</a></li> |
| 136 | <li>The <a href="http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2005/e05148r0-ACS-SMARTAttributesAnnex.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />ATA/ATAPI-8 SMART |
| 137 | Attribute Annex (proposal)</a> (later split into 3 parts: |
| 138 | <a href="http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2005/e05171r0-ACS-SMARTAttributes_Overview.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Overview</a>, |
| 139 | <a href="http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2005/e05172r0-ACS-SMARTAttributes_Assignment.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Assignment</a>, |
| 140 | <a href="http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2005/e05173r0-ACS-SMARTAttributes_List.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />List</a>, |
| 141 | not included in the standard!)</li> |
| 142 | <li>The <a href="http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2008/d2015r0-ATAATAPI_Command_Set_-_2_ACS-2.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />ATA/ATAPI |
| 143 | Command Set - 2 (ACS-2) revision 0 (working draft)</a></li> |
| 144 | |
| 145 | <li>See also other subdirectories <a href="ftp://ftp.t10.org/t13/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />here</a>.</li> |
| 146 | </ul> |
| 147 | <hr /> |
| 148 | |
| 149 | <ul class="High"> |
| 150 | <li><a name="scsi"></a><strong>SCSI References</strong></li> |
| 151 | </ul> |
| 152 | <ul class="Circle"> |
| 153 | <li>The <a href="http://www.t10.org"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />homepage of the T10 project</a>.</li> |
| 154 | |
| 155 | <li>The <a href="ftp://ftp.t10.org/t10/drafts/s2/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />SCSI-2 draft</a> by the T10 project.</li> |
| 156 | <li>See also other subdirectories <a href="ftp://ftp.t10.org/t10/drafts/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />here</a>.</li> |
| 157 | </ul> |
| 158 | <hr /> |
| 159 | |
| 160 | <ul class="High"> |
| 161 | <li><a name="smart-specification"></a><strong>The original SMART specification is SFF-8035i from the <a href="http://www.sffcommittee.com/ns/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Small |
| 162 | Form Factors (SFF) Committee</a>.</strong></li> |
| 163 | |
| 164 | </ul> |
| 165 | <ul class="Circle"> |
| 166 | <li> |
| 167 | Here is the SFF <a href="ftp://ftp.seagate.com/sff/INF-8035.TXT"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />"link"</a> |
| 168 | (they have "expired" the document). |
| 169 | </li> |
| 170 | <li> |
| 171 | Version 1.0 of <a href="ftp://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/people/macro/S.M.A.R.T./SFF-8035i.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />SFF-8035i |
| 172 | "Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.)". </a> |
| 173 | |
| 174 | </li> |
| 175 | <li> |
| 176 | Revision 2.0 of <a href="ftp://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/people/macro/S.M.A.R.T./8035R2_0.PDF"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />SFF-8035i "Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.)". </a> |
| 177 | </li> |
| 178 | <li> |
| 179 | Revision 1.4 of <a href="ftp://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/people/macro/S.M.A.R.T./8055.PDF"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />SFF-8055i |
| 180 | "S.M.A.R.T. Applications Guide for the ATA and SCSI Interfaces" </a> |
| 181 | </li> |
| 182 | |
| 183 | </ul> |
| 184 | |
| 185 | }}} |