diff --git a/www/index.html b/www/index.html index ced1f92a23c759b0eb617853d33be186eca966ed..82587b797caabd40d381eabc689d614d3bd24cff 100644 --- a/www/index.html +++ b/www/index.html @@ -232,16 +232,22 @@ smartmontools differ from smartsuite?</b> Michael Cornwell at the Concurrent Systems Laboratory (now part of the <a href="http://ssrc.soe.ucsc.edu/">Storage Systems Research Center</a>), Jack Baskin School of Engineering, University of -California, Santa Cruz.</p> +California, Santa Cruz. +You can find some information about the original smartsuite project here: +<a href="http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/press_releases/archive/99-00/09-99/smart_software.htm">Press Release 1</a>, +<a href="http://www.santa-cruz.com/archive/1999/September/22/local/stories/5local.htm">Press Release 2</a>, +<a href="http://www.ucsc.edu/currents/99-00/09-27/smart.html">Press Release 3</a>. +</p> <p>Smartmontools was derived directly from smartsuite.  It differs from smartsuite in that it supports the ATA/ATAPI-5 standard.  So for example <tt>smartctl</tt> from smartsuite has no facility for printing the S.M.A.R.T. self-test logs, and doesn't print timestamp information in the most usable way.  The <tt>smartctl</tt> utility -in smartmontools has added functionality for this (<tt>-q,-Q, -L,-f, -F +in smartmontools has added functionality for this (<tt>-q,-Q, -L,-f, -F, -U, -P and -m</tt> options), updated documentation, and also fixes small -technical bugs in smartsuite.  See the <a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/smartmontools/sm5/CHANGELOG?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain">CHANGELOG</a> +technical bugs in smartsuite.  See the +<a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/smartmontools/sm5/CHANGELOG?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain">CHANGELOG</a> file in CVS for a summary of what's been done.  The <tt>smartd</tt> utility differs from the smartsuite <tt>smartd</tt> in major ways.  First, it prints somewhat more informative error messages to the syslog. @@ -249,7 +255,7 @@ First, it prints somewhat more informative error messages to the syslog. <tt>/etc/smartd.conf</tt>, and if <tt>smartd</tt> finds this file, it monitors the list of devices therein, rather than querying all IDE and SCSI devices on your system.  (If the configuration file does not -exist, then it does query all IDE and SCSI devices.)  Finally, it's +exist, then it does query all IDE and SCSI devices.)  Also, it's a well-behaved daemon and doesn't leave open file descriptors and other detrius behind.  In addition, the <tt>smartmontools</tt> version of <tt>smartd</tt> can be instructed (via Directives in the configuration @@ -326,6 +332,7 @@ Look at the Seek Error Rate)</li> <li><a href="http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/IC35L120AVVA07-0-1.html">IBM IC35L120AVVA07</a> 120 GB 7200 RPM</li> <li><a href="http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/HITACHI_DK23BA-20-0.html">HITACHI_DK23BA-20</a> Hitachi 20 GB Laptop Disk</li> <li><a href="http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/TOSHIBA-0.html">TOSHIBA MK2018GAS</a> Toshiba 20 GB Laptop Disk</li> +<li><a href="http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/Maxtor-0.html">Maxtor 98196H8</a> Maxtor 80 GB 5400 RPM</li> </ul> <hr size="2" />