Modified database FAQ entry

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Modified database FAQ entry
7c5e5eff · ballen4705 · e6a9830d · 7c5e5eff
Commit 7c5e5eff authored Dec 4, 2003 by ballen4705
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- <title>smartmontools Home Page (last updated $Date: 2003/11/29 06:02:17 $)</title>
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 <div align="center"><h1><font color="#3333ff">smartmontools Home Page</font></h1></div>

 <p>Welcome! This is the home page for the smartmontools package.</p> 
@@ -65,8 +65,7 @@ smartmontools.&#160; You can use any of the first three procedures
 (the fourth is for Debian only).&#160; Just after "Method 4" below are
 some instructions for trying out smartmontools once you have completed
 the installation. The 
-<b><a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/smartmontools/sm5/INSTALL?sortby=date&view=markup">INSTALL</a>
-</b> file contains additional information.
+<b><a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/smartmontools/sm5/INSTALL?rev=HEAD&amp;content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup">INSTALL</a></b> file contains additional information.
 </p>
 <b>First Method - Install from the RPM file</b>
 <ul>
@@ -527,18 +526,27 @@ moving forward in time):
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 </li>

-<li><b>My ATA drive is not in the smartctl/smartd database.  How do I get it added?</b>
+<li><b>My ATA drive is not in the smartctl/smartd database.  Does this break anything? How do I get it added?</b>

 <p>
- First use the command:<br/>
- <tt>smartctl -t short /dev/hd?</tt><br/>
- to run a short self-test on the drive,
- and wait a few minutes for the test to complete.
- The timestamp in the self-test log will help us to determine
- whether Attribute 9 is being used to store the lifetime in hours,
- minutes, or seconds.  Then email the output from:<br/>
- <tt>smartctl -a /dev/hd?</tt><br/> 
-to <a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/smartmontools-support">smartmontools-support</a>
+ If your drive is not in the database, then the
+ <i>names</i> of the Attributes (displayed in the <b>ID#</b> column of
+ <b>smartctl -A /dev/hd?</b>) and the <i>format</i> of the the raw Attribute
+ values shown in the <b>RAW_VALUE</b> column may be incorrect.  This
+ is mostly cosmetic: the essential drive health monitoring/testing
+ functionality of <b>smartmontools</b> does <i>not</i> depend upon the
+ database.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ To have your drive added to the database, first use the command:<br/>
+ <tt>smartctl -t short /dev/hd?</tt><br/> to run a short self-test on
+ the drive, and wait a few minutes for the test to complete.  The
+ timestamp in the self-test log will help us to determine whether
+ Attribute 9 is being used to store the lifetime in hours, minutes, or
+ seconds.  Then email the output from:<br/> <tt>smartctl -a
+ /dev/hd?</tt><br/> to <a
+ href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/smartmontools-support">smartmontools-support</a>
 as an email attachment.  If you need to use any of the
 vendor-specific display options (<b>-v</b> options) with this drive
 or if any of the Attributes are behaving strangely please include
@@ -791,8 +799,8 @@ from smartmontools smartctl utility:</b>
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 Maintained by: <a href="mailto:smartmontools-support&#64;lists.sourceforge.net">Bruce Allen</a><br />
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