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2 | smartmontools - S.M.A.R.T. utility toolset for Darwin/Mac | |
3 | OSX, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows. | |
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8 | == HOME == | |
9 | The home for smartmontools is located at: | |
10 | ||
11 | http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ | |
12 | ||
13 | Please see this web site for updates, documentation, and for submitting | |
14 | patches and bug reports. | |
15 | ||
16 | You will find a mailing list for support and other questions at: | |
17 | ||
18 | http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/smartmontools-support | |
19 | ||
20 | ||
21 | == COPYING == | |
22 | Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen <smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net> | |
23 | ||
24 | This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it | |
25 | under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free | |
26 | Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later | |
27 | version. | |
28 | ||
29 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License (for | |
30 | example COPYING); if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 | |
31 | Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. | |
32 | ||
33 | ||
34 | == CREDITS == | |
35 | This code was originally developed as a Senior Thesis by Michael Cornwell | |
36 | at the Concurrent Systems Laboratory (now part of the Storage Systems | |
37 | Research Center), Jack Baskin School of Engineering, University of | |
38 | California, Santa Cruz. http://ssrc.soe.ucsc.edu/ | |
39 | ||
40 | ||
41 | == OVERVIEW == | |
42 | smartmontools contains utilities that control and monitor storage | |
43 | devices using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology | |
44 | (S.M.A.R.T.) system build into ATA and SCSI Hard Drives. This is used | |
45 | to check the reliability of the hard drive and to predict drive | |
46 | failures. smartmontools Version 5.x is designed to comply to the | |
47 | ATA/ATAPI-5 specification (Revision 1). Future releases of | |
48 | smartmontools (Versions 6.x and 7.x) will comply with the ATA/ATAPI-6 | |
49 | and ATA/ATAPI-7 specifications. | |
50 | ||
51 | This package is meant to be an up-to-date replacement for the | |
52 | ucsc-smartsuite and smartsuite packages, and is derived from that | |
53 | code. | |
54 | ||
55 | ||
56 | == CONTENTS == | |
57 | The suite contains two utilities: | |
58 | ||
59 | smartctl is a command line utility designed to perform S.M.A.R.T. tasks | |
60 | such as disk self-checks, and to report the S.M.A.R.T. status of | |
61 | the disk. | |
62 | ||
63 | smartd is a daemon that periodically monitors S.M.A.R.T. status and | |
64 | reports errors and changes in S.M.A.R.T. attributes to syslog. | |
65 | ||
66 | ||
67 | == OBTAINING SMARTMONTOOLS == | |
68 | ||
69 | Source tarballs | |
70 | --------------- | |
71 | ||
72 | http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=64297 | |
73 | ||
74 | CVS | |
75 | --- | |
76 | ||
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77 | cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/smartmontools login (when prompted for a password, just press Enter) |
78 | cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/smartmontools co sm5 | |
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79 | |
80 | This will create a subdirectory called sm5/ containing the code. | |
81 | ||
82 | To instead get the 5.1-16 release: | |
83 | ||
4d59bff9 | 84 | cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/smartmontools co -r RELEASE_5_1_16 sm5 |
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85 | |
86 | To update your sources to the 5.1-18 release: | |
87 | ||
88 | cd sm5 | |
89 | cvs up -r RELEASE_5_1_18 | |
90 | ||
91 | To update any tagged release to the latest development code: | |
92 | ||
93 | cd sm5 | |
94 | cvs up -A | |
95 | ||
96 | You can see what the different tags are by looking at | |
4d59bff9 | 97 | http://smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net/smartmontools/sm5/ . |
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98 | You'll see the tag names in the little scroll window where it says "Show |
99 | only files with tag". | |
100 | ||
101 | == BUILDING/INSTALLING SMARTMONTOOLS == | |
102 | ||
103 | Refer to the "INSTALL" file for detailed installation instructions. | |
104 | ||
105 | See the "WARNINGS" file for reports of hardware where these utilities | |
106 | might cause serious problems such as lockups. | |
107 | ||
108 | == GETTING STARTED == | |
109 | ||
110 | To examine SMART data from a disk, try: | |
111 | smartctl -a /dev/hda | |
112 | for ATA disks, or | |
113 | smartctl -a /dev/sda | |
114 | for SCSI disks. See the manual page 'man smartctl' for more | |
115 | information. | |
116 | ||
117 | To start automatic monitoring of your disks with the smartd daemon, | |
118 | try: | |
119 | smartd -d | |
120 | to start the daemon in foreground (debug) mode, or | |
121 | smartd | |
122 | to start the daemon in background mode. This will log messages to | |
123 | SYSLOG. If you would like to get email warning messages, please set | |
124 | up the configuration file smartd.conf with the '-m' mail warning | |
125 | Directive. See the manual page 'man smartd' for more information. |