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Using S.M.A.R.T. Disk Monitor 53

YES

Sending command ... Background format acknowledged and running.

Program terminating.

You may use the -str command, which reports status of self-tests to see if the selected disk has completed the

operation.

C:\>smartmon-ux -str \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE4

http://www.SANtools.com

Discovered HITACHI HUS103073FLF210 S/N "V3W908XA0055P6591CC9" on \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE4 [SES] (SMART

unsupported) [Bus/Port/ID.LUN=1/2/2.0]

- Results from last self-test: Logical unit not ready, format in progress

Program Ended.

1.18 Inquiry Page Viewer

The inquiry page data, which can be obtained by sending the -I or -I+ options, contains valuable information about the

selected device. This contains everything from make and model of peripheral to more exotic information such the

serial number, or maybe even where and when it was made.

The ANSI specification requires that all SCSI devices (remember SCSI includes fibre channel, SSA, and Fire Wire)

have a standard inquiry page. This is the information that your operating system looks at when determining what it is

hooked up to, and how it needs to communicate with it.

You can download the various ANSI specification files from http://www.t10. The documents have full information about

interpreting the hundreds of bytes, bits, and bit fields found in SCSI family peripherals. In the interest of enticing you to

download the spec, we will discuss a small subset of the information we are learning about one of the Seagate disk

drives attached to a development system.

Please refer to this page of the specification. It shows the type of information contained in the first 36 bytes of a

standard Inquiry. Note that this dump is specific to just one of many SCSI variants depending on what level of the

ANSI specification your particular device supports. Various bits and bytes are first undefined, may be defined, retired

(become obsolete), or changed to reflect different data depending on what level of the specification your particular

device was designed to report.

Notice also that the number of defects are also reported as of release 1.20. This information is not part of a

standard SCSI inquiry, but it seemed like the logical place to put this type of information.