Examine the temperature and health information (and more) of IDE and S-ATA hard disks connected to motherboard or external controller cards. By using the DOS edition of Hard Disk Sentinel, it is possible to examine the temperature and health information (and more) of IDE and S-ATA hard disks connected to motherboard or external controller cards and modify acoustic level of such disks. This edition can only be used if the system is running DOS (for example started from a DOS boot floppy disk). Under Windows DOS-box it is NOT working.

The following information are displayed:
1. detected hard disk controllers and their vendor and device IDs. Each device has an associated number (displayed with light blue)
2. size, model ID, serial number, revision of all IDE/S-ATA hard disks connected to the motherboard or these devices
3. temperature, health and performance values
4. Note: performance may be different compared to the detected value under Windows because under DOS the UDMA mode may not be selected previously by the BIOS
5. power on time (days, hour, minutes - if supported)
6. Note: this is for informational purposes only, the value displayed under Windows (after minutes of testing) is more precise
7. the controller device or channel and device location (with light blue). Eg. PM = Primary master

When the detection is completed, it is possible to save an XML report or a TXT report about the disks (similar to the report created by the Windows version, but it is smaller and contains limited information only). When the software closes, the exit code is the lowest health value found or 255 if an error occured or hard disk not found at all.

Command line switches
1. /N - disable detection of disk controllers and hard disks connected to them
2. /H - high compatibility mode
3. /M - maximum compatibility mode (use when some hard disk(s) are not detected)
4. /D - do not display "save report" option and do not wait
5. /R [report.xml] - save report to filename (default: report.xml)
6. /A - automatically save report to file name created from current date (MMDDHHMM.xml)
7. /TXT - create and save TXT report instead of XML
8. /ASK - ask for description and include it in report
9. /SEC - display hard disk security status also
10. /AAM - display automatic acoustic information also
11. /SETAAM drive_num|ALL level(hex)80-FE|QUIET|LOUD - set acoustic level on one or all disks
12. 80 or QUIET is the lowest (most silent) setting, FE or LOUD is the highest (fastest) setting
13. Examples: HDSDOS /setaam all quiet - sets all drive to most silent
14. HDSDOS /setaam 0 loud - sets drive 0 to fastest (loud) setting. Same as HDSDOS /setaam 0 FE
15. /SMART - display SMART information on screen
16. /P - pause between pages
17. /? - displays help information

The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this disk management software.