OPENSEACHEST(8)

📦 version 26.03.2, in debian trixie, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ NAME ✨

openSeaChest — okay bestie, this is the family name for the whole Seagate drive utilities situation 💖 it's the umbrella, the main character, the group chat all ten of them live in.

💅 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

Okay so Seagate makes diagnostic tools for our storage devices and there's two whole flavors: the GUI girlies and the CLI girlies 🎀 The GUI ones — SeaTools for Windows and SeaTools Bootable — are the two most popular ones for end users, and they speak 15 languages. Iconic, multilingual, no notes ✨

openSeaChest diagnostics are command line utilities, and they're for expert users. Like, these tools literally assume you already know how to run software from the OS command prompt, iykyk 💅 CLI tools are English only and they use "command line arguments" to define what task you want and which specific devices you mean. openSeaChest diagnostics run in both Linux and Windows environments, so everybody eats 🌈

openSeaChest tools come as stand alone 32-bit or 64-bit executables that you can just copy onto your own system. Slay, portable, we love that for you 🦋

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

openSeaChest_Basics — contains the most important tests and tools. The starter pack, the essentials, the main slay 🌟

The other openSeaChest "break out" utilities are also available and they go way deeper into specific areas. These are:

  • openSeaChest_Configure — tools to control various settings on the drives, all gathered into this one tool. Typical commands, for example, include Write Cache and Read Lookahead Cache enable or disable. 💅
  • openSeaChest_Erase — the whole focus here is data erasure. There are many different choices for erasing data, from a simple boot track erase all the way 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. Also this tool only works on Seagate drives. Not a drill bestie 😭
  • 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. Glow up era ✨
  • openSeaChest_Format — storage products that use 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 a ton of specialty options to accommodate a variety of conditions and to fine tune the procedure. This complex command deserves its own "break out" utility. It's giving diva, it's giving its own dressing room 💅
  • openSeaChest_GenericTests — Read Tests are the original disk drive diagnostic, which is 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. Healing arc 🔥
  • 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. Receipts, data, lore 🫶
  • 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. Nap era, but make it technical 😴
  • 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. Bestie we need the receipts to fix it fr fr 🫶

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 🦋 go peek, it's cute

💖 SEE ALSO 💖

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

And that's the whole thing bestie — this page is from openSeaChest_Utilities, dated March 2019, and it's manual page OPENSEACHEST(8) 💅✨ go forth and diagnose, you absolute icon 👑

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