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- LIBATASMART ATA S.M.A.R.T. Reading and Parsing Library
-
- GIT:
- git://git.0pointer.de/libatasmart.git
-
- GITWEB:
- http://git.0pointer.de/?p=libatasmart.git
-
- NOTES:
- As the name suggests libatasmart only does ATA S.M.A.R.T.,
- there is no support for SCSI harddisks. SCSI S.M.A.R.T. is a
- very different system, support for it should be implemented in
- a separate library "libscsismart" if there should ever be
- demand for it.
-
- This library is supposed to be lean and small and thus
- supports only a subset of the S.M.A.R.T. functionality.
- However, I claim that it implements the relevant part of it.
- If you need full control over all S.M.A.R.T. functionality of
- your hardware please refer to Buce Allen's smartmontools.
-
- This runs on Linux only. Patches to port it to other operating
- systems are welcome, as long as they don't make the code
- difficult to read and come with more than one or two
- #ifdefs. I am happy to include patches for non-Linux systems
- -- please note however that non-Linux operating systems are
- not relevant for release management. i.e. I won't make sure
- that libatasmart compiles fine on non-Linux systems before
- release.
-
- libatasmart supports classic ATA/IDE disks (i.e. /dev/hda) as
- well as ATA disks that are connected through a SCSI layer
- (SAT) (such as a SATA /dev/sda).
-
- USB disks generally don't support SAT and thus generally
- cannot be queried for S.M.A.R.T. data.
-
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
- This library is inspired by Bruce Allen's smartmontools and by
- Emmanuel Varagnat's hddtemp. However libatasmart is completely
- new code, not a single line has been copied from those two
- projects.
-
- LICENSE:
- LGPLv2.1+
-
- AUTHOR:
- Lennart Poettering
-
- REQUIREMENTS:
- None (except Linux with a GLibc)
-