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-$Id: README 3817 2013-06-09 16:59:50Z chrfranke $
+$Id: README 4063 2015-04-19 17:34:25Z chrfranke $
== HOME ==
The home for smartmontools is located at:
== COPYING ==
-Copyright (C) 2002-9 Bruce Allen <smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net>
+Copyright (C) 2002-9 Bruce Allen
+Copyright (C) 2004-15 Christian Franke
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
version.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License (for
-example COPYING); if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
-51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+example COPYING). If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
== CREDITS ==
-This code was originally developed as a Senior Thesis by Michael Cornwell
-at the Concurrent Systems Laboratory (now part of the Storage Systems
-Research Center), Jack Baskin School of Engineering, University of
-California, Santa Cruz. http://ssrc.soe.ucsc.edu/
+See AUTHORS file.
== OVERVIEW ==
smartmontools contains utilities that control and monitor storage
devices using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology
-(S.M.A.R.T.) system build into ATA and SCSI Hard Drives. This is used
-to check the reliability of the hard drive and to predict drive
-failures. smartmontools Version 5.x is designed to comply to the
-ATA/ATAPI-5 specification (Revision 1). Future releases of
-smartmontools (Versions 6.x and 7.x) will comply with the ATA/ATAPI-6
-and ATA/ATAPI-7 specifications.
-
-This package is meant to be an up-to-date replacement for the
-ucsc-smartsuite and smartsuite packages, and is derived from that
-code.
+(SMART) system build into ATA/SATA and SCSI/SAS hard drives and
+solid-state drives. This is used to check the reliability of the
+drive and to predict drive failures.
== CONTENTS ==
Refer to the "INSTALL" file for detailed installation instructions.
-See the "WARNINGS" file for reports of hardware where these utilities
-might cause serious problems such as lockups.
-
== GETTING STARTED ==
To examine SMART data from a disk, try:
- smartctl -a /dev/hda
-for ATA disks, or
smartctl -a /dev/sda
-for SCSI disks. See the manual page 'man smartctl' for more
-information.
+See the manual page 'man smartctl' for more information.
To start automatic monitoring of your disks with the smartd daemon,
try: