Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of TocDoc

Timestamp:

Sep 11, 2009, 8:57:13 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

Gabriele Pohl

Comment:

Added section about Manpages, deleted section about device support

TocDoc

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 =  Smartmontools Documentation =
 
-== Device Support ==
+== Manpages ==
+If you are having trouble understanding the output of smartctl
+or smartd, please first read the manual pages installed on your
+system:
 
-Smartmontools work on different operating systems. Due to OS-specific
-issues and also depending on the different state of smartmontools 
-development on the platforms, device support ist not the same  
-for all OS platforms.
+{{{
+  man 8 smartctl
+  man 8 smartd
+  man 5 smartd.conf
+}}}
 
-==== Supported Devices ====
-[wiki:Supported_RAID-Controllers RAID-Controllers] that work with smartmontools[[BR]]
-[wiki:Supported_USB-Devices USB-Devices] that work with smartmontools[[BR]]
+Here are on-line versions of the smartmontools man pages:
 
-==== Documentation On Device Support ====
- * [wiki:USB USB devices and smartmontools] - To access SMART functionality, smartmontools must be able to send ATA commands directly to the disk.
- * [wiki:NAS NAS devices and smartmontools] - Smartmontools can work also on ''Network Attached Storage'' (NAS) devices, if the appropiate functions are available there, e.g. on Dlink DNS-323 with [http://www.inreto.de/dns323/fun-plug/ fonz firmware]
+[http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ man/smartctl.8.html smartctl manual page][[BR]]
+[http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/man/smartd.8.html smartd manual page][[BR]]
+[http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/man/smartd.conf.5.html smartd.conf manual page]
+
+Note that these are the manual pages for the ''current version'' 
+of smartmontools in the developers SVN repository; they might not
+correspond to the (possibly older) version of smartmontools installed
+on '''your''' system.  So the manual pages installed on your system
+should be regarded as definitive for your installation.
+
+----
+
+== Tutorials ==
+[http://blog.shadypixel.com/monitoring-hard-drive-health-on-linux-with-smartmontools/ Monitoring Hard Drive Health on Linux with smartmontools ("Random Bits", Jan 2009)][[BR]]Step by step for beginners. Clear instruction with very nice layout :-)
+
+[http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6983 Monitoring Hard Disks with SMART (Linux Journal, Jan 2004)]
+
+[http://lea-linux.org/cached/index/Hardware-hard_plus-smart.html Soyez Smart (Francais) from GNU Linux Magazine France n°68]
+
+[http://www.linux-user.de/ausgabe/2004/10/056-smartmontools/ Vorbeugen statt Crash (Deutsch)] from [http://www.linux-user.de/ausgabe/2004/10 LinuxUser 2004/10]
+
+[http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/49/Monitoring_Hard_Disks_with_smartmontools.pdf Crash Prevention (English version of above)] from [http://www.linux-magazine.com/ Linux Magazine Dec 2004]
 
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-== Tutorials and articles about smartmontools ==
-[http://blog.shadypixel.com/monitoring-hard-drive-health-on-linux-with-smartmontools/ Monitoring Hard Drive Health on Linux with smartmontools ("Random Bits", Jan 2009)][[BR]]Step by step for beginners. Clear instruction with very nice layout :-)
-
-[http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6983 Monitoring Hard Disks with SMART (Linux Journal, Jan 2004)]
-
-[http://lea-linux.org/cached/index/Hardware-hard_plus-smart.html Soyez Smart (Francais) from GNU Linux Magazine France n°68]
-
-[http://www.linux-user.de/ausgabe/2004/10/056-smartmontools/ Vorbeugen statt Crash (Deutsch)] from [http://www.linux-user.de/ausgabe/2004/10 LinuxUser 2004/10]
-
-[http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/49/Monitoring_Hard_Disks_with_smartmontools.pdf Crash Prevention (English version of above)] from [http://www.linux-magazine.com/ Linux Magazine Dec 2004]
-
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