[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: smartmontools-5.33cvs20051115

[Václav Haisman]

Christian Franke wrote:
> The smartmontools package is now available in the Cygwin distribution.
> 
> Smartmontools contains utility programs (smartctl, smartd) to
> control/monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and
> Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.) built into most modern ATA and
> SCSI disks. In many cases, these utilities will provide advanced
> warning of disk degradation and failure.
> 
> Project home page is at http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Smartctl is a command line utility designed to perform tasks such as
> printing the SMART self-test and error logs, enabling and disabling
> SMART automatic testing, and initiating device self-tests.
> 
> Smartd is a daemon that monitors the drives every 30 minutes
> (configurable), logs SMART errors and changes of SMART Attributes via
> the syslog interface.
> Smartd can also be configured to schedule self-tests and send email
> warnings or run other scripts if problems are detected.
> 
> On Cygwin, smartd can be run as a windows service via cygrunsrv.
> 
> 
> This first version was built from CVS snapshot 2005-11-15.
> The build script in the Cygwin source package can be used to build both
> the Cygwin and the native Windows release of smartmontools.
> 
> 
> Please address questions related to the Cygwin port to the Cygwin
> mailing list at <cygwin@cygwin.com>, and questions related to S.M.A.R.T.
> to the smartmontools mailing list at
> <smartmontools-support@sourceforge.net>.
> 
> Christian
> 

Hi,
I get the following error with smartctl:

Internal error: unable to compile regular expression
^(Hitachi)?HDS724040KL(AT|SA)80)$parentheses not balanced
Please inform smartmontools developers at
smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net

Despite the error the tool seems to work fine.


Vaclav Haisman

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