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<h2>News</h2>
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<li>Because Sourceforge removed the product <tt>Wikispace</tt>, our wiki has moved to this new Trac.<br /><br /></li>

<li>We moved our CVS-Repository to Subversion and adjusted the <a href="Download#InstalllatestunreleasedcodefromSVNrepository">download instructions</a> accordingly. Christian Franke added a first feature which benefits from the change: If build from trunk, the first line of smartmontools output now reports the SVN revision date and number, e.g: <tt>smartctl 5.39 2009-07-16 r2838 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] (local build)</tt>. So if you send smartctl output, we can now identify the exact revision :-)<br /><br /></li>
    
<li>Our work in the field USB bridges goes on. Experimental support for <a class="ext-link" href="http://w3.sunplusit.com/english/products/storage/SPIF225A.aspx"><span class="icon">Sunplus USB bridges</span></a> is available now with new option <tt>-d usbsunplus</tt>. <a class="ext-link" href="http://www.jmicron.com/Product_JM20336.htm"><span class="icon">JMicron USB</span></a> to (S)ATA bridges with option <tt>-d usbjmicron[,1]</tt>. Thanks to the vendors for handing over the necessary specs. We are very interested in your test results with the new device type and collect all feedbacks in our Wiki-Page on <a href="Supported_USB-Devices">USB-Support</a>. Get ''current version'' from <a href="Download#InstalllatestunreleasedcodefromSVNrepository">SVN</a> and tell us about your experiences on the <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/smartmontools-support">smartmontools-support mailing list</a>. Binaries for Windows are available <a class="ext-link" href="http://smartmontools-win32.dyndns.org/smartmontools/"><span class="icon">here</span></a>.<br /><br /></li>
    
<li>Some newer Seagate/Maxtor disks risk a sudden death due to buggy firmware: 7200.11, ES.2, Diamondmax 22. See the <a class="ext-link" href="http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931"><span class="icon">Details</span></a>, reported by Seagates customer support.<br /><br /></li>
    
<li>Thanks to contributor Jordan Hargrave, smartmontools now have support for MegaRAID controllers. Get ''current version'' from <a href="Download#InstalllatestunreleasedcodefromSVNrepository">SVN</a> and use <tt>-d megaraid,N</tt> to inspect disk N behind the controller.<br /><br /></li>
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=== Table of Content ===
 * [wiki:Download Download Instructions][[BR]]
 * [wiki:TocDoc Documentation][[BR]]
 * [wiki:Help][[BR]]
 * [wiki:TocSupport Device Support][[BR]]
 * [wiki:TocDeveloper Developers Area][[BR]]
 * [wiki:Links]
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== About Smartmontools ==
[[Image(wiki:images:smart_logo.gif, align=left, alt=S.M.A.R.T.-Logo)]] 
The smartmontools package contains two utility programs ({{{smartctl}}} and {{{smartd}}}) 
to control and monitor storage systems using the ''Self-Monitoring, Analysis and 
Reporting Technology System'' (SMART) built into most modern ATA and SCSI harddisks. 
In many cases, these utilities will provide advanced warning of disk degradation and failure.

 
Smartmontools was originally derived from the Linux [http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartsuite/ smartsuite package]
and actually supports ATA/ATAPI/SATA-3 to -8 disks and [http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/smartmontools_scsi.html SCSI]
disks and tape devices. It should run on any modern Darwin (Mac OS X), Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, 
Solaris, OS/2, Cygwin, QNX, eComStation or [http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/faq.html#windows Windows] system. 
Smartmontools can also be run from one of many different 
[wiki:Download#ListofbootableCDs bootable CDs or floppies]. 

Due to OS-specific issues and also depending on the different state of smartmontools 
development on the platforms, device support ist not the same for all OS platforms. We provide info
about [wiki:Supported_RAID-Controllers RAID-controller support] here on the homepage
and of course in the [wiki:TocDoc#Manpages manpages].

Thanks to Alexander Shaduri, there is also a graphical user interface for {{{smartctl}}}
available. Go to the Homepage of [http://gsmartcontrol.berlios.de/ GSmartControl]
to get all info and the software itself. Have a look at the 
[http://gsmartcontrol.berlios.de/home/index.php/en/Screenshots screenshots]
and the [http://gsmartcontrol.berlios.de/home/index.php/en/About feature list]
to get an impression of this nice tool.

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'''License'''[[BR]]
All content in this wiki is published under [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html#SEC1 GNU GPL].