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Updated MSDN links, fixed XHTML syntax.

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<!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: 2007/03/22 20:46:59 $)</title>
<title>smartmontools Home Page (last updated $Date: 2007/03/23 11:55:33 $)</title>
<link rev="made" href="mailto:smartmontools-support&#64;sourceforge.net" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<meta name="description" content="smartmontools Home Page" />
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</head>
<body>
<!-- $Id: index.html,v 1.215 2007/03/22 20:46:59 chrfranke Exp $ -->
<!-- $Id: index.html,v 1.216 2007/03/23 11:55:33 chrfranke Exp $ -->
<div align="center">
<img src="smart_logo.gif" border="0" width="105" height="59" alt="SMART LOGO" />
......@@ -946,7 +946,7 @@ specs more closely then fix your code!).
with the message "...SMART_GET_VERSION failed". What is going wrong?</b>
<p>
A failing
<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/Storage_r/hh/Storage_r/k307_2a8bcdd5-f85d-4228-b59c-bba2cc3211ee.xml.asp">
<a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms803644.aspx">
SMART_GET_VERSION</a> call means that the device driver does not
implement the I/O controls (see <a href="#FAQ-win-ioctl">below</a>)
to access ATA SMART functionality.
......@@ -973,9 +973,9 @@ of smartmontools run from some <a href="#bootable">bootable CD</a>.
<p>
To access ATA SMART functionality on Windows, smartmontools uses the
I/O control calls
<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/Storage_r/hh/Storage_r/k307_8c974d08-3752-4442-82a5-cc13835ba482.xml.asp">
<a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms804269.aspx">
SMART_RCV_DRIVE_DATA</a> and
<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/Storage_r/hh/Storage_r/k307_2b043284-934c-4440-a4a4-6078f1bc845d.xml.asp">
<a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms803645.aspx">
SMART_SEND_DRIVE_CMD</a>.
These calls were available since Win95 OSR2.
An example program from Microsoft can be found
......@@ -999,7 +999,7 @@ most vendor specific ATA device drivers. Smartctl prints a
"Function not implemented" message in this case.
<p>
A new I/O control call
<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/Storage_r/hh/Storage_r/k307_e93738e1-b773-452b-8776-854f9c616967.xml.asp">
<a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms804551.aspx">
IOCTL_ATA_PASS_THROUGH</a> is available since Win2003 and XP SP2.
It should be supported by most new drivers. Experimental code using
this call was added 2006-04-27 and is included in smartmontools
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discussed on a separate <a href="smartmontools_scsi.html">page</a>.
</p>
<hr size="2"><a name="testinghelp"></a><b>FireWire, USB, and SATA
<hr size="2" /><a name="testinghelp"></a><b>FireWire, USB, and SATA
disks/systems</b>
<p>As for USB and FireWire (IEEE 1394) disks and tape drives, the news
is not good. They appear to the operating system as SCSI devices but
......@@ -1028,7 +1028,7 @@ standards. Even still, that compliance means that they tend to only
support the bare minimum of commands
needed for device operation (i.e. SMART support is an unsupported
extra). Hopefully external USB and Firewire devices will support SAT in
the future, see below.<br>
the future, see below.
</p>
<p>Smartmontools should work correctly with SATA drives under both
Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. Depending on which subsystem the SATA
......@@ -1049,7 +1049,7 @@ the command line with <span style="font-family: monospace;">smartctl</span>.
The '<span style="font-family: monospace;">-d ata</span>' option means
that even though the drive has a SCSI device name, treat it as an ATA
disk. Unfortunately such an approach doesn't often work. The next
paragraph has more information about '-d sat'.<br>
paragraph has more information about '-d sat'.
</p>
<p>The SCSI to ATA Translation (SAT) standard (ANSI INCITS 431-2007)
may solve many problems in this area. It defines how SCSI commands will
......@@ -1077,7 +1077,7 @@ and <span style="font-family: monospace;">smartd</span> to assume a
SATL is in place and act accordingly. The <span
style="font-family: monospace;">smartctl</span> command can often
detect a SATL and autoconfigure while in smartmontools version 5.37 <span
style="font-family: monospace;">smartd</span> often needs a hint.<br>
style="font-family: monospace;">smartd</span> often needs a hint.
</p>
<hr size="2" /><a name="differfromsmartsuite"></a><b>How does
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Maintained by: <a href="mailto:smartmontools-support&#64;lists.sourceforge.net">Bruce Allen</a><br />
Copyright (C) 2002-5 Bruce Allen<br />
Last updated: <tt>$Date: 2007/03/22 20:46:59 $</tt><br />
CVS tag: <tt>$Id: index.html,v 1.215 2007/03/22 20:46:59 chrfranke Exp $</tt>
Last updated: <tt>$Date: 2007/03/23 11:55:33 $</tt><br />
CVS tag: <tt>$Id: index.html,v 1.216 2007/03/23 11:55:33 chrfranke Exp $</tt>
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