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News
- 2012-08-13: Samuele Parise released
version 0.4.1.0 of HDD Guardian
(a graphical user interface for smartctl). Available only for Windows.
- 2012-08-12: Alexander Shaduri released
version 0.8.7 of GSmartControl
(a graphical user interface for smartctl). Available for Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X and Windows.
- 2012-06-30: We released
version 5.43 of Smartmontools.
See the NEWS file
and the ticket report to
get a summary of the changes and new features.
- 2012-05-30: We added experimental support for SATA drives behind an Areca SATA/SAS controller on Windows.
Thanks to Areca for providing this patch. Please report your test results to the
smartmontools support mailinglist.
- 2012-05-22: The OS-X-SAT-SMART-Driver
provides access to SMART data for SAT capable USB and Firewire devices on Mac OS X.
This works with existing smartmontools releases.
See ticket #25 for further details.
- 2011-10-20: We released
version 5.42 of Smartmontools.
- 2011-06-12: Alexander Shaduri released
version 0.8.6 of GSmartControl.
- 2011-06-09: We released
version 5.41 of Smartmontools.
- 2011-04-19: Help wanted! We are looking for a
maintainer / developer of smartmontools OpenBSD port
- 2011-02-04: We added experimental support for disks behind Intel Matrix RAID driver on Windows.
Please report your test results to the
smartmontools
support mailinglist.
- 2011-01-26: Intel released
Firmware
update 2CV102M3 for Intel X18-M/X25-M/X25-V G2 (34nm) SSDs.
Changes include improvements to SMART attributes and a fix for possible
drive hangs when reading SMART self-test log.
- 2010-12-09: Samsung released an
important
firmware patch for HD155UI and HD204UI.
WARNING: Do not use smartmontools with these drives
unless this patch is already installed. This warning also applies to other
tools (like hdparm) which use IDENTIFY DEVICE to obtain drive information. See
this page
for details.
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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].