Commands - Seagate ST320LM010 Product Manual

6.3.3 S.M.A.R.T. commands
S.M.A.R.T. provides near-term failure prediction for disk drives. When S.M.A.R.T. is enabled, the drive monitors predetermined drive attributes that
are susceptible to degradation over time. If self-monitoring determines that a failure is likely, S.M.A.R.T. makes a status report available to the host.
Not all failures are predictable. S.M.A.R.T. predictability is limited to the attributes the drive can monitor. For more information on S.M.A.R.T.
commands and implementation, see the Draft ATA-5 Standard.
SeaTools diagnostic software activates a built-in drive self-test (DST S.M.A.R.T. command for D4
diagnostic software ships with all new drives and is also available at: http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/.
This drive is shipped with S.M.A.R.T. features disabled. Users must have a recent BIOS or software package that supports S.M.A.R.T. to enable this
feature. The table below shows the S.M.A.R.T. command codes that the drive uses.
Table 15 S.M.A.R.T. Commands
Code in features register
D0
H
D2
H
D3
H
D4
H
D5
H
D6
H
D8
H
D9
H
DA
H
If an appropriate code is not written to the Features Register, the
Note
command is aborted and 0x 04 (abort) is written to the Error register.
Seagate Laptop Thin HDD Product Manual, Rev. H
S.M.A.R.T. command
S.M.A.R.T. Read Data
S.M.A.R.T. Enable/Disable Attribute Autosave
S.M.A.R.T. Save Attribute Values
S.M.A.R.T. Execute Off-line Immediate (runs DST)
S.M.A.R.T. Read Log Sector
S.M.A.R.T. Write Log Sector
S.M.A.R.T. Enable Operations
S.M.A.R.T. Disable Operations
S.M.A.R.T. Return Status
Serial ATA (SATA) Interface
) that eliminates unnecessary drive returns. The
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