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From: Dustin Cook on 23 Jun 2010 12:18
Bear Bottoms <bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com> wrote in
news:Xns9DA0482FD9B5bearbottoms1gmaicom(a)news.albasani.net:

> "GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl (from
> smartmontools package), which is a tool for querying and controlling
> SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on
> modern hard disk drives. It allows you to inspect the drive's SMART
> data to determine its health, as well as run various tests on it.
>
> Note: Only ATA drives (both PATA and SATA) and various USB to ATA
> bridges are supported for now. See smartmontools USB support overview
> for an (incomplete) list of supported USB to ATA bridges.
>
> Features
>
> automatically reports and highlights any anomalies;
> allows enabling/disabling SMART;
> allows enabling/disabling Automatic Offline Data Collection - a short
> self-check that the drive will perform automatically every four hours
> with no impact on performance;
> supports configuration of global and per-drive options for smartctl;
> performs SMART self-tests;
> displays drive identity information, capabilities, attributes, and
> self- test/error logs;
> can read in smartctl output from a saved file, interpreting it as a
> read- only virtual device;
> works on most smartctl-supported operating systems;
> has extensive help information."
>
> http://gsmartcontrol.berlios.de/home/index.php/en/Home
>

Thanks for the potentially useful little tool.


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side of the mountain was all that he could see! So he went back over the
mountain to see what he could see. Hey! The other side of the mountain
was all that he could see! - Green Jelly The Bear Song
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