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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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2127e193 | 6 | $Id: README 2844 2009-07-18 12:59:21Z chrfranke $ |
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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 == | |
2127e193 | 22 | Copyright (C) 2002-9 Bruce Allen <smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net> |
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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 | ||
2127e193 | 74 | SVN |
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75 | --- |
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2127e193 | 77 | svn co https://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/smartmontools/trunk/smartmontools smartmontools |
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2127e193 | 79 | This will create a subdirectory called smartmontools containing the code. |
832b75ed | 80 | |
2127e193 | 81 | To instead get the 5.38 release: |
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2127e193 | 83 | svn co https://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/smartmontools/tags/RELEASE_5_38/sm5 smartmontools |
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84 | |
85 | You can see what the different tags are by looking at | |
2127e193 | 86 | http://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/smartmontools/tags/ |
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87 | |
88 | == BUILDING/INSTALLING SMARTMONTOOLS == | |
89 | ||
90 | Refer to the "INSTALL" file for detailed installation instructions. | |
91 | ||
92 | See the "WARNINGS" file for reports of hardware where these utilities | |
93 | might cause serious problems such as lockups. | |
94 | ||
95 | == GETTING STARTED == | |
96 | ||
97 | To examine SMART data from a disk, try: | |
98 | smartctl -a /dev/hda | |
99 | for ATA disks, or | |
100 | smartctl -a /dev/sda | |
101 | for SCSI disks. See the manual page 'man smartctl' for more | |
102 | information. | |
103 | ||
104 | To start automatic monitoring of your disks with the smartd daemon, | |
105 | try: | |
106 | smartd -d | |
107 | to start the daemon in foreground (debug) mode, or | |
108 | smartd | |
109 | to start the daemon in background mode. This will log messages to | |
110 | SYSLOG. If you would like to get email warning messages, please set | |
111 | up the configuration file smartd.conf with the '-m' mail warning | |
112 | Directive. See the manual page 'man smartd' for more information. |