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News
- 2010-12-09: Samsung released an
important
firmware patch for HD155UI and HD204UI.
Updated 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.
- 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!
Thanks to German c't magazine for this info.
- 2010-11-08: The software collection DVD from German
c't magazine 24/2010
includes smartmontools 5.40-1 and
GSmartControl
0.8.5-4 for Windows.
- 2010-10-16: We released
version 5.40 of Smartmontools.
See the NEWS file
and the ticket report to
get a summary of the changes and new features.
- 2010-09-13: Samsung released a
Firmware
update for F3/F3EG to fix problems with AMD SB850 southbridge.
- 2010-09-01: We added the ability to display and clear the timed workload
attributes of Intel X25 SSDs.
- 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
drive
database mailinglist.
- 2010-04-27: We added a new SVN branch RELEASE_5_39_DRIVEDB with a
drivedb.h
file that can be used to update
the drive database of smartmontools 5.39 and 5.39.1.
Table of Contents
About Smartmontools
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 smartsuite package and actually supports ATA/ATAPI/SATA-3 to -8 disks and 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 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 RAID-controller support here on the homepage and of course in the manpages.
Thanks to Alexander Shaduri, there is also a graphical user interface for smartctl
available. Go to the Homepage of GSmartControl
to get all info and the software itself. Have a look at the
screenshots
and the feature list
to get an impression of this nice tool.
License
All content in this wiki is published under GNU GPL.
