Seagate tools (Seatools) bootable install

[omar.migs]

Hello, my question is rearding installing seatools bootable in a vm and let it access/see HDD's.
I have 2 zfs mirror pools where my vm's are installed, and one for the backups .
i want to install seatools bootable but the problem is that it will only see the partition size i specify during the vm setup. Is there a way to give it access to HDD's without affecting the zfs pools or the other running vm's ?
thanks

 

[Folke]

Hi,
no, there is no way to archive this without passing through the entire devices to the VM, which would make them unusable for anything else. It seems that they have a Linux version of their software, you might be able to get it running on the host, but no guarantees on what the program itself does to your disks.
Another route would be to drop SeaTools and use smartmontools instead for drive health monitoring. Like SeaTools, it reads the S.M.A.R.T. values of your drive and can trigger basic and intensive self-tests.

 

[omar.migs]

Hello @Folke and thank you for your reply.
my main problem was that smartctl reports wrong values for seagate drives, that's why i wanted to use Seatools .
Thank you again for the advice.