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Updated visible copyright years. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shaduri <ashaduri@gmail.com>
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About GSmartControl
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GSmartControl - Hard disk drive and SSD health inspection tool.
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GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl (from smartmontools
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package, see https://www.smartmontools.org/), which is a tool for
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querying and controlling SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting
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Technology) data on modern hard disk and solid-state drives. It allows you to
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inspect the drive's SMART data to determine its health, as well as run various
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tests on it.
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GSmartControl supports ATA drives (both PATA and SATA), various USB to
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ATA bridges and drives behind some RAID controllers:
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* Adaptec (Linux, some models only)
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* Areca (Linux, Windows)
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* HP CCISS (Linux)
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* HP hpsa / hpahcisr (Linux)
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* Intel Matrix Storage (CSMI) (Linux, Windows, FreeBSD)
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* LSI 3ware (Linux, Windows)
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* LSI MegaRAID (Windows)
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Note: Smartmontools supports even more RAID Controllers. The drives
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behind such controllers can be manually added to GSmartControl using
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"Add Device..." functionality or --add-device command-line option.
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See https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Supported_RAID-Controllers .
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https://gsmartcontrol.shaduri.dev
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Software Requirements
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Note: If using the official Windows package, no additional software is required.
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Build requirements:
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* pcre 1 - http://www.pcre.org .
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* GTK+, version 3.4 or higher - see http://www.gtk.org .
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* Gtkmm, version 3.4 or higher - see http://www.gtkmm.org .
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Runtime requirements:
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* smartmontools - see https://www.smartmontools.org/ .
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* xterm
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The following operating systems are supported:
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* Linux - All the popular configurations should work.
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* FreeBSD - Tested with DesktopBSD / x86.
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* NetBSD - Tested with NetBSD / x86.
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* OpenBSD - Tested with OpenBSD / x86-64.
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* DragonFlyBSD - Code written but no testing has been performed yet. Expected
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to work without any issues.
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* Windows Vista SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit), Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008,
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Windows 8.1, Windows 10. The Windows port uses pd0, pd1, etc...
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for physical drives 0, 1, etc... .
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* Mac OS X.
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* Solaris.
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* QNX - Code written but no testing has been performed yet.
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Command Line Options
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GSmartControl inherits options from GTK+ and other libraries, so be sure to
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run it with --help option to get a full list of accepted parameters.
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Note: The Windows version may not have a text output at all, so --help and
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similar arguments won't have any effect.
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The most important parameters are:
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-?, --help - Show help options.
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-l, --no-locale - Don't use system locale.
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-V, --version - Display version information.
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--no-scan - Don't scan devices on startup.
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--no-hide-tabs - Don't hide non-identity tabs when SMART is disabled. Useful
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for debugging.
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--add-virtual - Load smartctl data from file, creating a virtual drive. You
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can specify this option multiple times.
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--add-device - Add this device to device list. The format of the device is
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"<device>::<type>::<extra_args>", where type and extra_args are optional. This
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option is useful with --no-scan to list certain drives only. You can specify
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this option multiple times.
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Example: --add-device /dev/sda --add-device /dev/twa0::3ware,2 --add-device
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'/dev/sdb::::-T permissive'.
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-v, --verbose - Enable verbose logging; same as --verbosity-level 5.
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-q, --quiet - Disable logging; same as --verbosity-level 0.
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-b, --verbosity-level - Set verbosity level [0-5].
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License and Copyright
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For license information, see LICENSE_gsmartcontrol.txt file.
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