OPENSEACHEST(8)

NAME
openSeaChest

DESCRIPTION
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openSeaChest - Seagate drive utilities
Copyright (c) 2014-2019 Seagate Technology LLC and/or its Affiliates, All Rights Reserved
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About openSeaChest Command Line Diagnostics
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Seagate offers both graphical user interface (GUI) and command line interface (CLI) diagnostic tools for our storage devices. SeaTools for Windows and SeaTools Bootable for end users are the two most popular GUI tools. These tools support 15 languages.

openSeaChest diagnostics are command line utilities which are available for expert users. These command line tools assume the user is knowledgeable about running software from the operating system command prompt. CLI tools are in the English language only and use "command line arguments" to define the various tasks and specific devices. openSeaChest diagnostics are available for both Linux and Windows environments.

openSeaChest tools are available as stand alone 32 or 64-bit executables you can copy to your own system.

openSeaChest drive utilities support SATA, SAS, NVMe and USB interface devices.

openSeaChest_Basics - Contains the most important tests and tools.

Other openSeaChest "break out" utilities are available and listed below which offer more in-depth functionality in specific areas. These are:

openSeaChest_Configure - Tools to control various settings on the drives are brought together into this one tool. Typical commands, for example, include Write Cache and Read Lookahead Cache enable or disable.

openSeaChest_Erase - The focus is on data erasure. There are many different choices for erasing data from simple boot track erase to full cryptographic erasure (when supported). Be sure to back up important data before using this tool. Seagate is not responsible for lost user data. This tool only works on Seagate drives.

openSeaChest_Firmware - Seagate products are run by firmware. Having the latest firmware can improve performance and or reliability of your product. Seagate recommends applying new firmware to enhance the performance and or reliability of your drive. Most products may see one or two firmware updates within the early life of the product.

openSeaChest_Format - Storage products which utilize the SAS, SCSI or Fibre Channel interfaces are able to perform a full low-level media format in the field. The SCSI Format Unit command offers many specialty options to accommodate a variety of conditions and to fine tune the procedure. This complex command deserves its own "break out" utility.

openSeaChest_GenericTests - Read Tests are the original disk drive diagnostic which is to just read every sector on the drive, sequentially. This tool offers several common read tests which can be defined by either time or range. In addition, the Long Generic test has the ability to repair problem sectors, possibly eliminating an unnecessary drive return.

openSeaChest_Info - Historical generic activity logs (like total bytes written and power on hours) and performance logs (like temperature) are available for analytical review. Identification and inquiry data stored on the drive is also provided. A view of SMART and device statistics is available when supported by the drive.

openSeaChest_Logs - Four common options: Identification, Change Sector Size, Firmware Download, and Short Drive Self Test (DST).

openSeaChest_PowerControl - Seagate disk drives offer a multitude of options to manage power. This tool manipulates the various power modes.

openSeaChest_SMART - This tool provides a closer look at the collected SMART attributes data. SMART stands for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology. Short Drive Self Test is included as one of the standard SMART commands. In addition, the DST & Clean test has the ability to repair problem sectors, possibly eliminating an unnecessary drive return.

NOTE: Each of the above openSeaChest Utilities has an individual man page available.
For example: man openSeaChest_Basics or man openSeaChest_Firmware

REPORTING BUGS
Please report bugs/suggestions to seaboard at seagate dot com. Include the output of ---version information in the email. See the user guide section 'General Usage Hints' for information about saving output to a log file.

COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2014-2019 Seagate Technology LLC and/or its Affiliates, All Rights Reserved
BINARIES and SOURCE CODE files of the openSeaChest open source project have been made available to you under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL). Mozilla is the custodian of the Mozilla Public License ("MPL"), an open source/free software license.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/
You can run the command option ---license to display the agreement and acknowledgements of various open source tools and projects used with openSeaChest Utilities.

This software uses open source packages obtained with permission from the relevant parties. For a complete list of open source components, sources and licenses, please see our Linux USB Boot Maker Utility FAQ for additional information.

openSeaChest Utilities use libraries from the opensea source code projects. These projects are maintained at http://github.com/seagate. The libraries in use are opensea-common, opensea-transport and opensea-operations. These libraries are available under the Mozilla Public License 2.0.

WEB SITE
There are web pages discussing this software at
https://github.com/Seagate/openSeaChest

SEE ALSO
openSeaChest_Basics, openSeaChest_Configure, openSeaChest_Erase, openSeaChest_Firmware, openSeaChest_Format, openSeaChest_GenericTests, openSeaChest_Info, openSeaChest_Logs, openSeaChest_PowerControl, openSeaChest_SMART