diff --git a/www/index.html b/www/index.html index 5fc3ebd29a3006ab8e8826db8aa6a02fab3eb501..bd4fede7cea7c88ae5b34268b5c2ea6318f84ae4 100644 --- a/www/index.html +++ b/www/index.html @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head> - <title>smartmontools Home Page (last updated $Date: 2003/11/29 06:02:17 $)</title> + <title>smartmontools Home Page (last updated $Date: 2003/12/04 10:02:12 $)</title> <link rev="made" href="mailto:smartmontools-support@sourceforge.net" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> <meta name="description" content="smartmontools Home Page" /> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ </head> <body> -<!-- $Id: index.html,v 1.107 2003/11/29 06:02:17 ballen4705 Exp $ --> +<!-- $Id: index.html,v 1.108 2003/12/04 10:02:12 ballen4705 Exp $ --> <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.  You can use any of the first three procedures (the fourth is for Debian only).  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&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): </p> </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> <hr size="2" /> Maintained by: <a href="mailto:smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net">Bruce Allen</a><br /> -Last updated: <tt>$Date: 2003/11/29 06:02:17 $</tt><br /> -CVS tag: <tt>$Id: index.html,v 1.107 2003/11/29 06:02:17 ballen4705 Exp $</tt> +Last updated: <tt>$Date: 2003/12/04 10:02:12 $</tt><br /> +CVS tag: <tt>$Id: index.html,v 1.108 2003/12/04 10:02:12 ballen4705 Exp $</tt> <hr size="2" />