Hard Disk Sentinel Linux Edition (FREE)

By using the Linux console edition of Hard Disk Sentinel, it is possible to examine the temperature and health information (and more) of IDE, S-ATA (SATA II also), SCSI and USB hard disks connected to motherboard or external controller cards. The user must be root to use this software.

List of features

The following information are displayed:

• detected hard disk number and device name (for example /dev/sda)
• size, model ID, serial number, revision and interface of all detected hard disks
• temperature, health and performance values
• power on time (days, hour, minutes - if supported)
  Note: this is for informational purposes only, the value displayed under Windows (after some minutes of testing) may be more accurate

Command line switches

The switches are NOT case sensitive. Upper and lower case can be used to specify them.

• -H - displays help and usage information
• -R [report file] - automatically save report to filename (default: report.txt)
• -XML - create and save XML report instead of TXT
• -VERBOSE - detailed detection information and save temporary files (only for debug purposes)

Please send saved XML or TXT reports, questions or ideas to info@hdsentinel.com to help improving this tool.

Usage

This edition is FREE. You can freely distribute and use it to analyse hard disk status.

Download

Hard Disk Sentinel Linux console version - executable, gzip-compressed

Compatibility

Kernel support is required to detect and display information about SATA hard disks. This version was successfully tested under the following systems:

• CentOS 5
• Fedora 5, 6, 7, 8
• Ubuntu 8.04 server kernel 2.6.24-16-server
• Kubuntu 8.04
• Xubuntu 8.04
• Slackware 11.0
• UHU Linux 2.1
• SuSe 10.2, SuSe 10.3 (SuSe 10.0 - NOT working, reports wanted)

Successfully tested with Adaptec SCSI controllers and SCSI hard disks, and with external enclosures built with different USB bridge chips.

Updates

0.02

0.01 - Download this version