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Newer page: version 4 Last edited on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 9:53:39 am by AristotlePagaltzis
Older page: version 3 Last edited on Wednesday, December 4, 2002 12:36:57 am by PerryLorier Revert
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 [Acronym] for __S__elf __M__onitoring, __A__nalysis and __R__eporting __T__echnology. 
  
-If you see your [BIOS] refer to S.M.A.R.T this is it. The Hard drive supports many features that people aren't normally aware. A hard drive can try and predict it's failure, and can tell you various parts about it's health, configure it for security, perform a "security disk wipe" and all sorts of goodies . 
+A standard for monitoring the health of [IDE] disks, particularly to alert the user before a disk crashes, but also offering a wealth of information about the HardDisk in general. If you see your [BIOS] refer to S.M.A.R.T., this is it. 
  
-Grab "smartsuite" (in [Debian], RedHat and [Mandrake] or http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartsuite ) and try . 
+For experimentation, grab the [smartmontools | http://smartmontools.sf.net] ([Debian], RedHat, [Mandrake] etc probably have it packaged ) and have a look . First enable [SMART]:  
  
-First enable SMART:  
  smartctl -e /dev/hd''x'' 
-Then view it's information: 
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+And then view its information:  
+  
  smartctl -a /dev/hd''x'' 
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 ("a" = all information. "v" = vendor-specific) 
  
 Eg: 
  # smartctl -v /dev/hda 
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  (199)UDMA CRC Error Count 0x003e 200 181 000 23 
  (200)Unknown Attribute 0x0000 100 253 000 0 
  (202)Unknown Attribute 0x0032 100 253 000 0 
  
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- It's amazing, it gives you the total running time of the drive, how many times it's been power cycled (!), how many sectors have been remapped (and when!).  
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-Definately one of computings li'l secrets.  
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-Hmm, and after more research, it appears smartsuite has been pretty mcuh abandoned, so, in traditional OpenSource style, someone's forked it, a much nicer program is available: http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/  
+It's amazing, it gives you the total running time of the drive, how many times it's been power cycled (!), how many sectors have been remapped (and when!). Definitely one of computings li'l secrets.