02-13-2011
I want to use it as additional storage so I can transfer information off of my other two hard drives on to it. The operating system on my laptop is windows 7. I have even tryed connecting the hard drive to my desktop with failer as well. Will I need to get a cable that will connect to the FW800 or the eSATA cable so that way I can connect it to my labtop for use?
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
gsmartcontrol
GSmartControl(1) User Commands GSmartControl(1)
NAME
GSmartControl - Hard disk drive health inspection tool
SYNOPSIS
gsmartcontrol [OPTIONS]
gsmartcontrol-root [<desktop> [OPTIONS]]
DESCRIPTION
GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl (from smartmontools), which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART (Self-
Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on modern hard disk drives. It allows you to inspect the drive's SMART data to deter-
mine its health, as well as run various tests on it.
This manual page documents briefly the gsmartcontrol and gsmartcontrol-root commands.
gsmartcontrol-root command launches gsmartcontrol with administrative privileges. The desktop argument specifies which desktop is currently
running, for automatic selection of native su mechanism. Valid values for desktop are auto, kde, gnome, other.
OPTIONS
Help Options:
-?, --help
Show help options
--help-all
Show all help options
--help-gtk
Show GTK+ options
--help-debug
Show logging options
Application Options:
-l, --no-locale
Disable locale
-V, --version
Display version information
--no-scan
Don't scan devices on startup
--no-hide-tabs
Don't hide non-identity tabs when SMART is disabled. Useful for debugging.
--add-virtual
Load smartctl data from file, creating a virtual drive
--add-device
Add this device to device list. Useful with --no-scan to list certain drives only.
--display=DISPLAY
X display to use
-v, --verbose
Enable verbose logging; same as --verbosity-level 5
-q, --quiet
Disable logging; same as --verbosity-level 0
-b, --verbosity-level
Set verbosity level [0-5]
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2008 - 2009 Alexander Shaduri <ashaduri 'at' gmail.com>
AUTHOR
This manual page was originally written by Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe@iuculano.it>, for the Debian project.
gsmartcontrol GSmartControl(1)