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        !             2: smartmontools - S.M.A.R.T. utility toolset for Darwin/Mac
        !             3: OSX, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows.
        !             4: ==========================================================
        !             5: 
        !             6: $Id: README 2844 2009-07-18 12:59:21Z chrfranke $
        !             7: 
        !             8: == HOME ==
        !             9: The home for smartmontools is located at:
        !            10:     
        !            11:     http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
        !            12: 
        !            13: Please see this web site for updates, documentation, and for submitting
        !            14: patches and bug reports.
        !            15: 
        !            16: You will find a mailing list for support and other questions at:
        !            17: 
        !            18:     http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/smartmontools-support
        !            19: 
        !            20: 
        !            21: == COPYING ==
        !            22: Copyright (C) 2002-9 Bruce Allen <smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net>
        !            23: 
        !            24: This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
        !            25: under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
        !            26: Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later
        !            27: version.
        !            28: 
        !            29: You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License (for
        !            30: example COPYING); if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675
        !            31: Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
        !            32: 
        !            33: 
        !            34: == CREDITS ==
        !            35: This code was originally developed as a Senior Thesis by Michael Cornwell
        !            36: at the Concurrent Systems Laboratory (now part of the Storage Systems
        !            37: Research Center), Jack Baskin School of Engineering, University of
        !            38: California, Santa Cruz. http://ssrc.soe.ucsc.edu/
        !            39: 
        !            40: 
        !            41: == OVERVIEW ==
        !            42: smartmontools contains utilities that control and monitor storage
        !            43: devices using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology
        !            44: (S.M.A.R.T.) system build into ATA and SCSI Hard Drives. This is used
        !            45: to check the reliability of the hard drive and to predict drive
        !            46: failures.  smartmontools Version 5.x is designed to comply to the
        !            47: ATA/ATAPI-5 specification (Revision 1).  Future releases of
        !            48: smartmontools (Versions 6.x and 7.x) will comply with the ATA/ATAPI-6
        !            49: and ATA/ATAPI-7 specifications.
        !            50: 
        !            51: This package is meant to be an up-to-date replacement for the
        !            52: ucsc-smartsuite and smartsuite packages, and is derived from that
        !            53: code.
        !            54: 
        !            55: 
        !            56: == CONTENTS ==
        !            57: The suite contains two utilities:
        !            58: 
        !            59: smartctl is a command line utility designed to perform S.M.A.R.T. tasks
        !            60:         such as disk self-checks, and to report the S.M.A.R.T. status of
        !            61:         the disk.
        !            62: 
        !            63: smartd   is a daemon that periodically monitors S.M.A.R.T. status and
        !            64:          reports errors and changes in S.M.A.R.T. attributes to syslog.
        !            65: 
        !            66: 
        !            67: == OBTAINING SMARTMONTOOLS ==
        !            68: 
        !            69: Source tarballs
        !            70: ---------------
        !            71: 
        !            72: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=64297
        !            73: 
        !            74: SVN
        !            75: ---
        !            76: 
        !            77: svn co https://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/smartmontools/trunk/smartmontools smartmontools
        !            78: 
        !            79: This will create a subdirectory called smartmontools containing the code.
        !            80: 
        !            81: To instead get the 5.38 release:
        !            82: 
        !            83: svn co https://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/smartmontools/tags/RELEASE_5_38/sm5 smartmontools
        !            84: 
        !            85: You can see what the different tags are by looking at
        !            86: http://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/smartmontools/tags/
        !            87: 
        !            88: == BUILDING/INSTALLING SMARTMONTOOLS ==
        !            89: 
        !            90: Refer to the "INSTALL" file for detailed installation instructions.
        !            91: 
        !            92: See the "WARNINGS" file for reports of hardware where these utilities
        !            93: might cause serious problems such as lockups.
        !            94: 
        !            95: == GETTING STARTED ==
        !            96: 
        !            97: To examine SMART data from a disk, try:
        !            98:   smartctl -a /dev/hda
        !            99: for ATA disks, or
        !           100:   smartctl -a /dev/sda
        !           101: for SCSI disks.  See the manual page 'man smartctl' for more
        !           102: information.
        !           103: 
        !           104: To start automatic monitoring of your disks with the smartd daemon,
        !           105: try:
        !           106:   smartd -d
        !           107: to start the daemon in foreground (debug) mode, or
        !           108:   smartd
        !           109: to start the daemon in background mode.  This will log messages to
        !           110: SYSLOG.  If you would like to get email warning messages, please set
        !           111: up the configuration file smartd.conf with the '-m' mail warning
        !           112: Directive.  See the manual page 'man smartd' for more information.