Date 2006-04-12
Summary: smartmontools release 5.36 (STABLE)
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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)
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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)
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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.
And always is defined as share/examples/rc.d
which was the default before.
This rc.d scripts are not automatically added to PLISTs now also.
So add to each corresponding PLIST as required.
This was discussed on tech-pkg in late January and late April.
Todo: remove the RCD_SCRIPTS_EXAMPLEDIR uses in MESSAGES and elsewhere
and remove the RCD_SCRIPTS_EXAMPLEDIR itself.
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.
under share/examples/rc.d. The variable name already was named
RCD_SCRIPTS_EXAMPLEDIR.
This is from ideas from Greg Woods and others.
Also bumped PKGREVISION for all packages using RCD_SCRIPTS mechanism
(as requested by wiz).
<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.
