Skip to content
Snippets Groups Projects
Commit 7c5e5eff authored by ballen4705's avatar ballen4705
Browse files

Modified database FAQ entry 

git-svn-id: https://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/smartmontools/trunk@1336 4ea69e1a-61f1-4043-bf83-b5c94c648137
parent e6a9830d
Branches
No related tags found
No related merge requests found
Show whitespace changes
Inline Side-by-side
Showing
with 24 additions and 16 deletions
www/index.html
+ 24
− 16
View file @ 7c5e5eff
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <!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"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head> <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&#64;sourceforge.net" /> <link rev="made" href="mailto:smartmontools-support&#64;sourceforge.net" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<meta name="description" content="smartmontools Home Page" /> <meta name="description" content="smartmontools Home Page" />
...@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ ...@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
</head> </head>
<body> <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> <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> <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 ...@@ -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 (the fourth is for Debian only).&#160; Just after "Method 4" below are
some instructions for trying out smartmontools once you have completed some instructions for trying out smartmontools once you have completed
the installation. The the installation. The
<b><a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/smartmontools/sm5/INSTALL?sortby=date&view=markup">INSTALL</a> <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.
</b> file contains additional information.
</p> </p>
<b>First Method - Install from the RPM file</b> <b>First Method - Install from the RPM file</b>
<ul> <ul>
...@@ -527,18 +526,27 @@ moving forward in time): ...@@ -527,18 +526,27 @@ moving forward in time):
</p> </p>
</li> </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> <p>
First use the command:<br/> If your drive is not in the database, then the
<tt>smartctl -t short /dev/hd?</tt><br/> <i>names</i> of the Attributes (displayed in the <b>ID#</b> column of
to run a short self-test on the drive, <b>smartctl -A /dev/hd?</b>) and the <i>format</i> of the the raw Attribute
and wait a few minutes for the test to complete. values shown in the <b>RAW_VALUE</b> column may be incorrect. This
The timestamp in the self-test log will help us to determine is mostly cosmetic: the essential drive health monitoring/testing
whether Attribute 9 is being used to store the lifetime in hours, functionality of <b>smartmontools</b> does <i>not</i> depend upon the
minutes, or seconds. Then email the output from:<br/> database.
<tt>smartctl -a /dev/hd?</tt><br/> </p>
to <a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/smartmontools-support">smartmontools-support</a>
<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 as an email attachment. If you need to use any of the
vendor-specific display options (<b>-v</b> options) with this drive vendor-specific display options (<b>-v</b> options) with this drive
or if any of the Attributes are behaving strangely please include or if any of the Attributes are behaving strangely please include
...@@ -791,8 +799,8 @@ from smartmontools smartctl utility:</b> ...@@ -791,8 +799,8 @@ from smartmontools smartctl utility:</b>
<hr size="2" /> <hr size="2" />
Maintained by: <a href="mailto:smartmontools-support&#64;lists.sourceforge.net">Bruce Allen</a><br /> Maintained by: <a href="mailto:smartmontools-support&#64;lists.sourceforge.net">Bruce Allen</a><br />
Last updated: <tt>$Date: 2003/11/29 06:02:17 $</tt><br /> Last updated: <tt>$Date: 2003/12/04 10:02:12 $</tt><br />
CVS tag: <tt>$Id: index.html,v 1.107 2003/11/29 06:02:17 ballen4705 Exp $</tt> CVS tag: <tt>$Id: index.html,v 1.108 2003/12/04 10:02:12 ballen4705 Exp $</tt>
<hr size="2" /> <hr size="2" />
......
0% or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Please to comment

AEI Privacy Policy Imprint