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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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6 $Id: README,v 1.55 2006/04/12 14:54:28 ballen4705 Exp $
9 The home for smartmontools is located at:
11 http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
13 Please see this web site for updates, documentation, and for submitting
14 patches and bug reports.
16 You will find a mailing list for support and other questions at:
18 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/smartmontools-support
22 Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen <smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net>
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
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.
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/
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.
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
57 The suite contains two utilities:
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
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.
67 == OBTAINING SMARTMONTOOLS ==
72 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=64297
77 cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/smartmontools login (when prompted for a password, just press Enter)
78 cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/smartmontools co sm5
80 This will create a subdirectory called sm5/ containing the code.
82 To instead get the 5.1-16 release:
84 cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/smartmontools co -r RELEASE_5_1_16 sm5
86 To update your sources to the 5.1-18 release:
89 cvs up -r RELEASE_5_1_18
91 To update any tagged release to the latest development code:
96 You can see what the different tags are by looking at
97 http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/smartmontools/sm5/ .
98 You'll see the tag names in the little scroll window where it says "Show
101 == BUILDING/INSTALLING SMARTMONTOOLS ==
103 Refer to the "INSTALL" file for detailed installation instructions.
105 See the "WARNINGS" file for reports of hardware where these utilities
106 might cause serious problems such as lockups.
108 == GETTING STARTED ==
110 To examine SMART data from a disk, try:
114 for SCSI disks. See the manual page 'man smartctl' for more
117 To start automatic monitoring of your disks with the smartd daemon,
120 to start the daemon in foreground (debug) mode, or
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.