Commands; S.m.a.r.t. Commands - Seagate Barracuda 5400.1 ST340015A Product Manual

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4.1.4

S.M.A.R.T. provides near-term failure prediction for disc 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 imple-

mentation, see the Draft ATA-7 Standard.

SeaTools diagnostic software activates a built-in drive self-test (DST S.M.A.R.T.

command for D4

software ships with all new drives and is also available at:

http://seatools.seagate.com.

This drive is shipped with S.M.A.R.T. features enabled. You must have a recent

BIOS or software package that supports S.M.A.R.T. to use this feature. The

table below shows the S.M.A.R.T. command codes that the drive supports.

Code in features

Note.

If an appropriate code is not written to the Features Register, the

command is aborted and 0x04 (abort) is written to the Error register.

Barracuda 5400.1 Product Manual, Rev. G

) that eliminates unnecessary drive returns. The diagnostic

S.M.A.R.T. command

S.M.A.R.T. Read Data

Vendor-specific

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

Vendor-specific

S.M.A.R.T. Enable Operations

S.M.A.R.T. Disable Operations

S.M.A.R.T. Return Status

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