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<h3><a name="smartmontools"></a><strong>Smartmontools resources</strong></h3>
<ul class="Square">
    <li><a href="http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/">Smartmontools Homepage</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/">SourceForge's Project Page</a></li>

    <li><a href="http://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/smartmontools">SVN repository</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/">Trac / Wiki</a></li>
</ul>
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<h3><a name="tools-with-smartmontools"></a><strong>Monitoring tools working with smartmontools</strong></h3>
<ul class="Square">
    <li><a href="http://munin.projects.linpro.no/">
    <img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Munin</a></li>

    <li><a href="http://gsmartcontrol.berlios.de/home/index.php/About">
    <img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />GSmartControl</a></li>
    
</ul>
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<h3><a name="other-tools"></a><strong>Other open source hard disk monitoring projects</strong></h3>
<ul class="Square">
    <li><a href="http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html">
    <img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />CrystalDiskInfo</a></li>

</ul>
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<ul class="High">
    <li><a name="reliability"></a><strong>Studies / Background on reliability</strong></li>
</ul>
<ul class="Circle">
  <li>
    <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&amp;articleId=9073158">
    <img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Vendor disk
    failure rates: Myth or metric?</a>, Mary Brandel in <i>Computerworld</i>, April 2008.
  </li>

  <li>
    <a href="http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&amp;pa=showpage&amp;pid=506">
    <img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Hard Disk Drives:
    The Good, The Bad and The Ugly</a>, Jon Elerath (Network Appliance) in <i>ACM Queue vol 5, no 6</i>,
    pg 28-37, September 2007.<br /><br />
  </li>
  <li>From the USENIX FAST Conferences
    <ul class="Circle">
      <li>

        <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/fast08/tech/full_papers/jiang/jiang_html/index.html">
        <img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Are Disks the
        Dominant Contributor for Storage Failures? A Comprehensive Study of Storage Subsystem Failure
        Characteristics</a>, Weihang Jiang, Chongfeng Hu, Yuanyuan Zhou, Arkady Kanevsky in <i>6th USENIX
        Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '08)</i>, pg 111-125, February 2008.
      </li>
      <li>
        <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/fast07/tech/schroeder/schroeder_html/index.html">
        <img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />
        Disk Failures in the Real World: What does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean to you?</a>,
        Bianca Schroeder, Garth A. Gibson (Carnegie Mellon University) in<i> 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage
        Technologies (FAST '07)</i>, pg 1-16, February 2007.
      </li>

      <li>
        <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/fast07/tech/full_papers/pinheiro/pinheiro_html/index.html">
        <img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Failure Trends in
        a Large Disk Drive Population</a>, Eduardo Pinheiro, Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Luiz Andr&eacute;
        Barroso (Google Inc.) in <i>5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '07)</i>,
        pg 17-28, February 2007.<br /><br />
      </li>
    </ul>

  </li>
 <li><u>Specifying Reliability in the Disk Drive Industry: No More
MTBF's</u>, Jon G. Elerath (IBM Storage Systems Division)<br />
<font size="-1">in Proceedings of the IEEE 2000 Annual Reliability and Maintainability
Symposium, pg 194, 0-7803-5848-1/00/$10.00.</font><br />
<br /></li>
<li>From the Seagate Corporation
<ul class="Circle">
<!--  <li><a href="http://www.seagate.com/newsinfo/docs/disc/drive_reliability.pdf" target="_blank">
Estimating Drive Reliability in Desktop Computers and Consumer Electronics Systems</a></li> -->
  <li><a href="http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/whitepaper/enhanced_smart.pdf" target="_blank"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Enhanced
  SMART - Get SMART For Reliability</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/whitepaper/smart_u8.pdf" target="_blank"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Playing
  it SMART</a>

   (<a href="http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/smart.html" target="_blank"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />HTML Version</a>)</li>
  <li><a href="http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/whitepaper/Enhanced_DST_Tech_Paper.pdf" target="_blank"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Enhanced Drive Self-Test</a><br />
  <br /></li>
 </ul>
</li>

<li>From the <a href="http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/smart/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />UCSD SMART Project</a>

<ul class="Circle">
 <li><a href="http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/smart/tech_papr/HamerlySmartPaper.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Bayesian
Approaches to Failure Prediction for Disk Drives</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/smart/tech_papr/SmtPapTransReliFinalWeb.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Improved
Disk-Drive Failure Warnings</a></li>
 </ul>
</li>
</ul>
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<ul class="High">
    <li><a name="references"></a><strong>Useful references on SMART and the  ATA/ATAPI standards</strong></li>

</ul>
<ul class="Circle">
 <li><a href="http://smartlinux.sourceforge.net/smart/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Zbigniew Chlondowski's SMART Information Site.</a>
This includes a useful list of <a href="http://smartlinux.sourceforge.net/smart/attributes.php"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Attributes
and their meanings.</a>
</li>
    <li>The <a href="http://www.t13.org"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />homepage of the T13 project</a>.</li>
    <li>The <a href="http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/project/d2008r7b-ATA-3.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />ATA-3
 revision 7b (working draft)</a> (last specification of SMART Attributes and Thresholds,
  removed before final standard was published!)</li>

    <li>The <a href="http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/project/d1153r18-ATA-ATAPI-4.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />ATA/ATAPI-4
 revision 18 (final draft)</a> (SMART Attributes and Thresholds no longer specified)</li>
    <li>The <a href="http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/project/d1321r3-ATA-ATAPI-5.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />ATA/ATAPI-5
 revision 3 (final draft)</a> (start with Section 8.41)</li>
    <li>The <a href="http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/project/d1410r3b-ATA-ATAPI-6.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />ATA/ATAPI-6
revision 3b (final draft)</a></li>
    <li>The <a href="http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2007/D1532v1r4b-AT_Attachment_with_Packet_Interface_-_7_Volume_1.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />ATA/ATAPI-7
    revision 4b (final draft) Volume 1</a> (has SMART documentation),
  <a href="http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2007/D1532v2r4b-AT_Attachment_with_Packet_Interface_-_7_Volume_2.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Volume 2</a>,
  <a href="http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2007/D1532v3r4b-AT_Attachment_with_Packet_Interface_-_7_Volume_3.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Volume 3</a></li>

 <li>The <a href="http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2008/D1699r6a-ATA8-ACS.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />ATA/ATAPI-8
 Command Set (ACS) revision 6a (final draft)</a></li>
 <li>The <a href="http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2005/e05148r0-ACS-SMARTAttributesAnnex.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />ATA/ATAPI-8 SMART
 Attribute Annex (proposal)</a> (later split into 3 parts:
  <a href="http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2005/e05171r0-ACS-SMARTAttributes_Overview.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Overview</a>,
  <a href="http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2005/e05172r0-ACS-SMARTAttributes_Assignment.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Assignment</a>,
  <a href="http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2005/e05173r0-ACS-SMARTAttributes_List.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />List</a>,
  not included in the standard!)</li>
 <li>The <a href="http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2008/d2015r0-ATAATAPI_Command_Set_-_2_ACS-2.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />ATA/ATAPI
 Command Set - 2 (ACS-2) revision 0 (working draft)</a></li>

 <li>See also other subdirectories <a href="ftp://ftp.t10.org/t13/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />here</a>.</li>
</ul>
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<ul class="High">
    <li><a name="scsi"></a><strong>SCSI References</strong></li>
</ul>
<ul class="Circle">
    <li>The <a href="http://www.t10.org"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />homepage of the T10 project</a>.</li>

    <li>The <a href="ftp://ftp.t10.org/t10/drafts/s2/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />SCSI-2 draft</a> by the T10 project.</li>
    <li>See also other subdirectories <a href="ftp://ftp.t10.org/t10/drafts/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />here</a>.</li>
</ul>
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<ul class="High">
    <li><a name="smart-specification"></a><strong>The original SMART specification is SFF-8035i from the <a href="http://www.sffcommittee.com/ns/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Small
  Form Factors (SFF) Committee</a>.</strong></li>

</ul>
<ul class="Circle">
    <li>
      Here is the SFF <a href="ftp://ftp.seagate.com/sff/INF-8035.TXT"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />"link"</a>
     (they have "expired" the document).
    </li>
    <li>
      Version 1.0 of <a href="ftp://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/people/macro/S.M.A.R.T./SFF-8035i.pdf"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />SFF-8035i
      "Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.)". </a>

    </li>
    <li>
      Revision 2.0 of <a href="ftp://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/people/macro/S.M.A.R.T./8035R2_0.PDF"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />SFF-8035i "Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.)". </a>
    </li>
    <li>
      Revision 1.4 of <a href="ftp://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/people/macro/S.M.A.R.T./8055.PDF"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />SFF-8055i
      "S.M.A.R.T. Applications Guide for the ATA and SCSI Interfaces" </a>
    </li>

  </ul>

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