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== Device Support ==
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.

==== Supported Devices ====
[wiki:Supported_RAID-Controllers RAID-Controllers] that work with smartmontools[[BR]]
[wiki:Supported_USB-Devices USB-Devices] that work with smartmontools[[BR]]

==== 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]