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Mac Os View Hard Drive Smart Status


Mar 16, 2020  In Windows, you can manually check the S.M.A.R.T. Status of your drives from the Command Prompt. Just right-click the Start menu, select Run,. Jul 03, 2017  The main view shows the S.M.A.R.T. Status information for your hard drives. If everything is working properly, you should see the status “Good“ displayed. In the image below, just under the menu bar, you can see that all three drives in our system report a “Good” status and you can even view the temperature of each drive. Discover the world of external hard drives for Mac. Compare portable, USB and external hard drive models for office and home and shop online.

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Check SMART Status.
Click the link above to open the script in Script Editor, save, and enter the following line into your crontab:
osascript [path/to/file]
where path/to/file is, obviously, the POSIX path to the Applescript.

One mistake--make sure you place the POSIX path to the script in quotation marks: osascript '/path/to/file'. Sorry about that

Check SMART Status.scpt.
Click the link above to open the script in Script Editor, save, and enter the following line into your crontab:
osascript '/path/to/file'
where /path/to/file is, obviously, the POSIX path to the Applescript.
[Corrected the script to ask Finder to display the dialog if there is an error--osascript can't display dialogs directly. Rob, if you want, delete the previous two comments and move this up. Sorry about that.]
This version should discover your drives.

I just made a geektool entry of 'diskutil info disk0 | grep Verified > /dev/null'
Then I set the default icons and turned on icon display. If disk status is 'Verified' then I get a green icon, if it's not I get red.

I edited the script as I wanted to have a DAILY HARD DRIVE VERIFIED STATUS message window displayed, not just when the 'Drive Failed'.
Click on the link below and it will automatically download to your computer (This link will expire Dec.31.2003):
http://homepage.mac.com/cyberbrent/filechute/SMART_Disk_Check.zip
I also used CRONNIX to add the scheduled time for this script to run daily under my user name CRONTAB. This is a very simply program for a newbie or advanced user - nice GUI.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7486
Regards
Brent
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QUESTION: 10.3: Get hard disk SMART status from the command line

Question: Is the SMART status verified a) when the diskutil utility is run, b) only at boot-up, or c) once every xx hrs?
Does anybody know the answer?
For some reason I have it in my head that the SMART status is checked maybe only at boot-up, status is stored somewhere, and then diskutil simply retrieves the status from that 'somewhere'.
Am I wrong?

heres a script you can launch on cron and it'll notify you when the result comes back bad: you need to replace youremail@whatever.com with the email address you want the alert sent to.
The grep process is unnecessary in returning the status, as awk has its own pattern matching. Also, to get better output, you should print both the third and fourth fields, to handle 'Not Supported' or other multi-word output:
This script should test all your attached drives.
10.3: Get hard disk SMART status from the command line

This command makes a horrible drive parking noise on an intel MBP running 10.5.6. Anyone else experience this or know another method, or the cause of this noise?

If you don't get a startup chime then you may have a worse problem. Just be prepared.


What year is your MBP? From 2011 onward you would use Internet Recovery. Earlier you would need to install the original software that came with the computer on software restore DVDs.


Internet Recovery


Install Mavericks, Lion/Mountain Lion Using Internet Recovery


Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.


Boot to the Internet Recovery HD:


Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND-OPTION- R keys until a globe appears on the screen. Wait patiently - 15-20 minutes - until the Recovery main menu appears.


Partition and Format the hard drive:


1. Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.


2. After DU loads select your newly installed hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.


3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed. Quit DU and return to the main menu.


Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion. Mavericks: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion, Mavericks and click on the Install button. Be sure to select the correct drive to use if you have more than one.


Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet

if possiblebecause it is three times faster than wireless.


This should restore the version of OS X originally pre-installed on the computer.


DVD Installation:


Clean Install of Snow Leopard


Be sure to make a backup first because the following procedure will erase

the drive and everything on it.


1. Boot the computer using the Snow Leopard Installer Disc or the Disc 1 that came

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with your computer. Insert the disc into the optical drive and restart the computer.

After the chime press and hold down the 'C' key. Release the key when you see

a small spinning gear appear below the dark gray Apple logo.


2. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue

button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.

After DU loads select the hard drive entry from the left side list (mfgr.'s ID and drive

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size.) Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window. Set the number of

partitions to one (1) from the Partitions drop down menu, click on Options button

Drive

and select GUID, click on OK, then set the format type to MacOS Extended

(Journaled, if supported), then click on the Apply button.


3. When the formatting has completed quit DU and return to the installer. Proceed

with the OS X installation and follow the directions included with the installer.


4. When the installation has completed your computer will Restart into the Setup

Assistant. Be sure you configure your initial admin account with the exact same

username and password that you used on your old drive. After you finish Setup

Assistant will complete the installation after which you will be running a fresh

install of OS X. You can now begin the update process by opening Software

Update and installing all recommended updates to bring your installation current.


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Download and install Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1.