Date 2010-10-16
Summary: smartmontools release 5.40
-----------------------------------------------------------
- Other config entries may precede smartd DEVICESCAN.
- Option '-v' allows to specify byte order of attribute raw value
- configure: New default value for '--with-docdir'.
- configure: '--enable-drivedb' is now the default.
- Improved support for Intel SSDs.
- Improved support for SandForce based SSDs.
- Drive database is in a separate source file 'drivedb.h'
which can be downloaded from SVN.
- USB ID info is now included in 'drivedb.h'.
- Many additions to drive database.
- New script 'update-smart-drivedb'.
- smartd libcap-ng support, option '-C, --capabilities'.
- smartd directive '-l xerror' to check Extended Comprehensive
SMART Error Log.
- smartctl option '-l scterc[,...]' to get/set the
SCT Error Recovery Control time limit.
- smartctl option '-t vendor,N'.
- smartctl options '--scan, --scan-open'.
- Linux: Add '/dev/sd[a-c][a-z]' to smartd DEVICESCAN.
- Linux: Support SATA drives on LSI 3ware 9750 controllers.
- Windows: Read 'drivedb.h' and 'smartd.conf' from exe directory.
- Windows: Support for 64-bit executables.
- Windows: Support for cross compilation on Linux.
- Fix regression in smartctl option '-t select,M-N'.
- Fix SCT temperature table commands on big endian CPUs.
- Fix regression in smartd SMARTD_DEVICE and SMARTD_DEVICETYPE
environment variables.
Date 2010-01-28
Summary: smartmontools release 5.39.1
-----------------------------------------------------------
- Fix crash on kFreeBSD.
- Fix regression in smartctl option '-q, --quietmode'.
- Fix regression in smartd directive '-l selftest'.
- Linux: Allow smartd 'DEVICESCAN -d sat'.
- Linux: Fix spin-up of SATA drive if '-n standby' is used.
- Windows: Fix parsing of 3ware 'tw_cli' output.
Date 2009-12-09
Summary: smartmontools release 5.39 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL)
-----------------------------------------------------------
- Sourcecode repository moved from CVS to SVN
- Support for USB devices with Cypress, JMicron and Sunplus USB bridges
- USB device type autodetection for some devices on Linux, Windows and FreeBSD
(http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/Supported_USB-Devices)
- Support for Areca controllers on Linux
- Support for MegaRAID controllers on Linux
- Support for HighPoint RocketRAID controllers on FreeBSD
- Support RAID controllers using /dev/pass devices on FreeBSD
- Support CHECK_POWER_MODE and WRITE_LOG on FreeBSD
- Support for up to 128 devices on 3ware controllers
- smartctl option '-l xerror' to print ATA SMART Extended Comprehensive
Error Log
- smartctl option '-l xselftest' to print ATA SMART Extended Self-test Log
- smartctl option '-l sataphy' to print SATA Phy Event Counters
- smartctl option '-l sasphy' to print SAS device phy information
- smartctl options '-l gplog,...' and '-l smartlog,...' to print any log page
- smartctl option '-x' to print all extended info if available
- smartctl prints SCSI load/unload cycle counts
- Improve display of huge raw values of some SMART attributes
- Option '-d sat+TYPE' to use SAT with controllers which require '-d TYPE'
- Option '-v ID,RAW_FORMAT,ATTR_NAME' to add new vendor specific attributes
- Support for SSD drives using 64-bit raw attributes
- Many additions to drive database
- New simplified syntax for drive database
- Option '-B FILE' to read drive database from a file
- Configure option to add drive database file to distribution
- smartd can now handle attributes 197 and 198 with increasing raw values
- smartd logs changes of self-test execution status
- smartd directive '-n powermode,N' to limit the number of skipped checks
- smartd flag '!' for '-r' and '-R' directives to log changes as critical
- smartd supports scheduled Selective Self-Tests
- Self-tests scheduled during system downtime or disk standby are run after
next startup
- smartd option '-s PREFIX' to store smartd internal state until next startup
- smartd option '-A PREFIX' to log attributes at each check cycle
- Configure options to enable the above by default
- Change to an object oriented interface to access ATA and SCSI devices
- Linux, Win32 and FreeBSD modules migrated to new interface
- Rework of smartd data structures
- Checkin date and SVN revision and optional BUILD_INFO printed in version info
- Better support for GSmartControl on Windows
- SELinux fixes to 3ware device node creation
- Fix CCISS file descriptor leak on FreeBSD
- Compile fixes for Solaris and FreeBSD
- Use getaddrinfo() instead of gethostbyname() to support IPv6
- C++ Support for QNX Target, already tested for QNX 6.3.2 on x86 and
armle target
- Additional support for Samsung MLC flash drives
- New device type detection algorithm on FreeBSD, not based on filename
- Support for the adaX (ATA on CAM bus) devices on FreeBSD 8.0 and higher
Based on patch provided by Sergey Svishchev in PR 38573.
This version contains DragonFly support, noted in PR 36982.
patch-ag is taken from PR 38199.
Date 2008-03-10
Summary: smartmontools release 5.38 (STABLE)
--------------------------------------------
This is a stable release of smartmontools. In addition to changes
below, it includes:
- Libata/Marvell driver devices no longer need explicit '-d' switch
- DEVICESCAN automatically detects libata/marvell driver SATA devices
- Fixed auto-offline/autosave support in FreeBSD
- SAT device type + SCSI generic devices work properly with smartd under Linux
- Many additions to drive database
- More portable autogen/autoconf/automake script set
- Additional Windows IOCTL route to access SMART data
- Some ATA-8 updates
- Smoother CCISS compilation support in Linux
- Dragonfly support
- Fixed some ATA identity byte swap problems on big endian CPUs
- Added support for the QNX operating system
- No-fork option added to smartd
- Improved device scanning and drive type recognition in Windows
- 3ware support for controllers with more disks (32 max)
- Improved Windows installer
- Improved SMART Attribute list and descriptions
- Fix to smartctl return codes
- Fix to scheduled tests on Highpoint RAID controllers
- New samsung firmware bug workaround option
- Auto-offline and Auto-save fixed in Linux + libata
- Solaris: better SCSI support and support for Sun compilers AND gcc
- Fixed and improvements to CCISS support
- More options for SCSI temperature monitoring and history
- Additional command line options for selective self-tests
- Compilation fixes for various platforms.
See CHANGELOG for more details, or smartmontools CVS for still further
details.
This is an unstable/experimental release of smartmontools. I'm commiting
this update anyway because of the SAT support, which allows this utility
to be used with recent hard disks. No problems experienced so far and no
objections raised on tech-pkg@.
Changes include:
- Many additions to the table of known drives
- SAT (SCSI/ATA Translation) support
- SCSI background scan results log
- smartd -W directive for temperature tracking and warning
- smartctl -n option to check power state
- improved smartd power state logging
- CCISS support under Linux
- HighPoint RocketRAID support under Linux
- 3ware RAID support under Windows
- SPT interface for SCSI devices under Windows
- ATA selective self test under Windows XP/2003
- NSIS installer support for Windows version
- Started move from C to C++
- Various other improvements
Date 2006-04-12
Summary: smartmontools release 5.36 (STABLE)
-----------------------------------------------------------
This is a stable smartmontools release. The 5.34 version
described just below was never officially released because
Bruce Allen decided to wait until Linux support for
accessing SATA devices through libata was in the official
kernel.org sources. Changes include:
- Win 2000/XP:ability to cancel drive self-tests
- Additions to the table of known drives
- FreeBSD support for 3ware char device interface and
multiple 3ware cards
- Various cygwin improvements for running as service
- Works 'out of the box' with Linux SATA libata
- smartd option added to list test schedules
- smartctl option added to list part of drive database
- various improvements for SCSI disks and logs
Date 2005-04-19
Summary: smartmontools release 5.34 (STABLE)
-----------------------------------------------------------
This is a stable smartmontools release. It includes:
- OS/2 and eComStation support
All Platforms:
- Printing of drive family info
- SCSI disks: output size of grown defect list
- Added info about drive family to 'smartctl -i' output.
- Added option ',q' for smartd '-n' directive to suppress
'skipping checks' message which may spin up laptop disk.
- Added message if smartd '-n' check power mode spins up disk.
Cygwin and Windows:
- Added info about Windows version and service pack to banner line.
- Added support for smartd '-n' directive for Win2000/XP.
- Added support for READ_LOG for WinNT4 also.
- Fixed bug that prevents display of empty logs on Win2000/XP
- Fixed use of cached smart enabled state in 'smartctl -i' output.
Windows:
- Fixed bug that prevents running smartd as service on WinNT4.
Date 2004-9-5
Summary: smartmontools release 5.33 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL)
-----------------------------------------------------------
This is an unstable/experimental release of smartmontools. It includes
- support for Darwin/Mac OSX
- support for OpenBSD
- support for 3ware ATA RAID controllers under FreeBSD
- support for 3ware 9500 series SATA RAID controllers under
Linux. Use /dev/twa[0-15] devices to access these.
- support for 3ware character device interfaces /dev/twe[0-15]
under Linux. This allows (for example) Selective Self-tests.
- support for Marvell chip-set based SATA controllers under Linux.
- smartd mail now works also under Windows (using "Blat" mailer).
- smartd can now be run as a Windows service.
Please report sucess/failure with these items to the
smartmontools-support mailing list.
directory instead of $(sysconfdir) for packages that use GNU automake.
Also modify patch-aa to avoid installing the provided init.d script
in a simpler way.
<shattered at users.sourceforge.net> with some minor changes by me.
The smartmontools package contains two utility programs (smartctl
and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems using the
Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (SMART)
built into most modern ATA and SCSI hard disks. In many cases,
these utilities will provide advanced warning of disk degradation
and failure.
This closes PR pkg/25616.
