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News
- 2010-08-20: We added support for SSDs with SandForce controller. Only a few drive models are detected
for now. Please try
current
version from SVN, a build for Windows is available
here.
If you have a drive not detected, please report this to our
drive
database mailinglist.
- 2010-04-27: We added a new SVN branch RELEASE_5_39_DRIVEDB with a drive database file
drivedb.h
which is compatible with smartmontools 5.39 and 5.39.1. This file can be used to update
/usr/share/smartmontools/drivedb.h if smartmontools build was configured with
--enable-drivedb. Otherwise entries from this file could also be used
to create /etc/smart_drivedb.h.
- 2010-01-28: We released
version 5.39.1 of Smartmontools.
This is a bugfix release, see NEWS
file.
- 2009-12-09: We released
version 5.39 of Smartmontools.
Have a look in the NEWS to get a summary
of the changes and new features.
- 2009-09-12: This wiki became our official homepage now. We hope you like it :-)
- 2009-07-16: We moved our CVS-Repository to Subversion. If built from trunk, the first line of smartmontools output now reports the SVN revision date and number, e.g: smartctl 5.39 2009-07-16 r2838 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] (local build). So if you send smartctl output, we can now identify the exact revision :-)
- 2009-03-23: Experimental support for Sunplus USB bridges is available with new option -d usbsunplus, for JMicron USB bridges with option -d usbjmicron. We are very interested in your test results with the new device types and collect all feedback on our USB-Support Wiki-Page.
- 2009-01-22: Some newer Seagate/Maxtor disks risk a sudden death due to buggy firmware: 7200.11, ES.2, Diamondmax 22. See the Details, reported by Seagate's customer support.
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=== Table of Contents ===
* [wiki:Download Download Instructions][[BR]]
* [wiki:TocDoc Documentation][[BR]]
* [wiki:FAQ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)][[BR]]
* [wiki:Help][[BR]]
* [wiki:TocSupport Device Support][[BR]]
* [wiki:TocDeveloper Developer's 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 is 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].