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<h2>News</h2>
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<li>2010-12-02: Samsung confirmed the problem. A firmware update for the HD204UI is under
development.<br /><br /></li>

<li><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">2010-11-30: Updated WARNING:
The data loss with SAMSUNG HD204UI (Firmware 1AQ10001) may also occur with other
tools (like hdparm) which use IDENTIFY DEVICE to obtain drive information.</span> See
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks">this page</a>
for details.<br /><br /></li>

<li><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">2010-11-24: WARNING: Using
smartctl with Samsung F4 EcoGreen drives may result in write errors and bad blocks. Do not
use smartmontools with these drives!</span>
Thanks to German c't magazine for this info.<br /><br /></li>

<li>2010-11-08: The software collection DVD from German
<a class="ext-link" href="http://www.heise.de/ct/inhalt/2010/24/132/"><span class="icon">c't magazine 24/2010</span></a>
includes smartmontools 5.40-1 and
<a class="ext-link" href="http://gsmartcontrol.berlios.de/"><span class="icon">GSmartControl</span></a>
0.8.5-4 for Windows.<br /><br /></li>

<li>2010-10-16: We released 
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/files/">version 5.40 of Smartmontools</a>.
See the <a href="/browser/tags/RELEASE_5_40/smartmontools/NEWS">NEWS</a> file
and the <a href="/query?group=status&milestone=Release+5.40">ticket report</a> to
get a summary of the changes and new features.<br /><br /></li>

<li>2010-09-13: Samsung released a
<a class="ext-link" href="http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/faqView.do?b2b_bbs_msg_id=308"><span class="icon">Firmware
update for F3/F3EG</span></a> to fix problems with AMD SB850 southbridge.<br /><br /></li>

<li>2010-09-01: We added the ability to display and clear the timed workload
attributes of Intel X25 SSDs.<br /><br /></li>

<li>2010-08-20: We added support for SSDs with SandForce controller. Only a few drive models are detected
for now. If you have a drive not detected, please report this to our
<a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/smartmontools-database">drive
database mailinglist</a>.<br /><br /></li>

<li>2010-04-27: We added a new SVN branch RELEASE_5_39_DRIVEDB with a
<a href="/browser/branches/RELEASE_5_39_DRIVEDB/smartmontools/drivedb.h">drivedb.h</a>
file that can be used to <a href="/wiki/Download#Updatethedrivedatabase">update
the drive database</a> of smartmontools 5.39 and 5.39.1.
<br /><br /></li>

<li>2010-01-28: We released 
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/files/">version 5.39.1 of Smartmontools</a>.<br /><br /></li>

<li>2009-12-09: We released 
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/files/">version 5.39 of Smartmontools</a>.<br /><br /></li>

<li>2009-09-12: This wiki became our official homepage now. We hope you like it :-)<br /><br /></li>

<li>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.<br /><br /></li>
    
<li>2009-03-23: Experimental support for Sunplus USB bridges is available with new option <tt>-d usbsunplus</tt>, for JMicron USB bridges with option <tt>-d usbjmicron</tt>. We are very interested in your test results with the new device types and collect all feedback on our <a href="http://sourceforge.net/wiki/Supported_USB-Devices">USB-Support</a> Wiki-Page.<br /><br /></li>
    
<li>2009-01-22: 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 Seagate's customer support.<br /><br /></li>
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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 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].