Description:

smartmontools controls and monitors storage devices using the
Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.)
built into ATA and SCSI Hard Drives. This is used to check the
reliability of the hard drive and to predict drive failures. The suite
is derived from the smartsuite package, and contains two utilities. The
first, smartctl, is a command line utility designed to perform simple
S.M.A.R.T. tasks. The second, smartd, is a daemon that periodically
monitors smart status and reports errors to syslog. The package is
compatible with the ATA/ATAPI-5 specification. Future releases will be
compatible with the ATA/ATAPI-6 andATA/ATAPI-7 specifications. The
package is intended to incorporate as much "vendor specific" and
"reserved" information as possible about disk drives. man smartctl and
man smartd will provide more information.