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smartmontools NEWS
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$Id: NEWS 2956 2009-10-11 00:21:15Z samm2 $
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The most up-to-date version of this file is:
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http://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/smartmontools/trunk/smartmontools/NEWS?view=markup
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Date <Not released yet, please try current SVN>
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Summary: smartmontools release 5.39 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL)
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- Sourcecode repository moved from CVS to SVN
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- Support for USB devices with Cypress, JMicron and Sunplus USB bridges
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- USB device type autodetection for some devices on Linux,Windows and FreeBSD
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(http://smartmontools.wiki.sourceforge.net/overview_USB-Support)
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- Support for Areca controllers on Linux
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- Support for MegaRAID controllers on Linux
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- Support for HighPoint RocketRAID controllers on FreeBSD
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- Support RAID controllers using /dev/pass devices on FreeBSD
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- Support CHECK_POWER_MODE and WRITE_LOG on FreeBSD
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- Support for up to 128 devices on 3ware controllers
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- smartctl option '-l xerror' to print ATA SMART Extended Comprehensive
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Error Log
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- smartctl option '-l xselftest' to print ATA SMART Extended Self-test Log
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- smartctl option '-l sataphy' to print SATA Phy Event Counters
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- smartctl options '-l gplog,...' and '-l smartlog,...' to print any log page
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- smartctl prints SCSI load/unload cycle counts
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- Improve display of huge raw values of some SMART attributes
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- Option '-d sat+TYPE' to use SAT with controllers which require '-d TYPE'
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- Many additions to drive database
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- New simplified syntax for drive database
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- Option '-B FILE' to read drive database from a file
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- Configure option to add drive database file to distribution
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- smartd can now handle attributes 197 and 198 with increasing raw values
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- smartd logs changes of self-test execution status
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- smartd directive '-n powermode,N' to limit the number of skipped checks
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- smartd supports scheduled Selective Self-Tests
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- Self-tests scheduled during downtime are run after next startup
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- Option '-s PREFIX' to store smartd internal state until next startup
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- Configure option to enable the above by default
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- Change to an object oriented interface to access ATA and SCSI devices
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- Linux, Win32 and FreeBSD modules migrated to new interface
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- Rework of smartd data structures
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- Checkin date and SVN revision and optional BUILD_INFO printed in version info
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- Better support for gSmartControl on Windows
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- SELinux fixes to 3ware device node creation
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- Fix CCISS file descriptor leak on FreeBSD
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- Compile fixes for Solaris and FreeBSD
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- Use getaddrinfo() instead of gethostbyname() to support IPv6
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- C++ Support for QNX Target, already tested for QNX 6.3.2 on x86 and
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armle target
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- Additional support for Samsung MLC flash drives
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- New device type detection algorithm on FreeBSD, not based on filename
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- Support for the adaX (ATA on CAM bus) devices on FreeBSD 8.0 and higher
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Date 2008-03-10
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Summary: smartmontools release 5.38 (STABLE)
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This is a stable release of smartmontools. In addition to changes
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below, it includes:
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- Libata/Marvell driver devices no longer need explicit '-d' switch
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- DEVICESCAN automatically detects libata/marvell driver SATA devices
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- Fixed auto-offline/autosave support in FreeBSD
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- SAT device type + SCSI generic devices work properly with smartd under Linux
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- Many additions to drive database
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- More portable autogen/autoconf/automake script set
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- Additional Windows IOCTL route to access SMART data
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- Some ATA-8 updates
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- Smoother CCISS compilation support in Linux
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- Dragonfly support
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- Fixed some ATA identity byte swap problems on big endian CPUs
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- Added support for the QNX operating system
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- No-fork option added to smartd
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- Improved device scanning and drive type recognition in Windows
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- 3ware support for controllers with more disks (32 max)
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- Improved Windows installer
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- Improved SMART Attribute list and descriptions
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- Fix to smartctl return codes
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- Fix to scheduled tests on Highpoint RAID controllers
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- New samsung firmware bug workaround option
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- Auto-offline and Auto-save fixed in Linux + libata
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- Solaris: better SCSI support and support for Sun compilers AND gcc
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- Fixed and improvements to CCISS support
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- More options for SCSI temperature monitoring and history
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- Additional command line options for selective self-tests
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- Compilation fixes for various platforms.
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See CHANGELOG for more details, or smartmontools SVN for still further
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details.
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Date 2006-12-20
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Summary: smartmontools release 5.37 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL)
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This is an unstable/experimental release of smartmontools.
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It includes:
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- Many additions to the table of known drives
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- SAT (SCSI/ATA Translation) support
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- SCSI background scan results log
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- smartd -W directive for temperature tracking and warning
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- smartctl -n option to check power state
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- improved smartd power state logging
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- CCISS support under Linux
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- HighPoint RocketRAID support under Linux
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- 3ware RAID support under Windows
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- SPT interface for SCSI devices under Windows
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- ATA selective self test under Windows XP/2003
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- NSIS installer support for Windows version
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- Started move from C to C++
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- Various other improvements
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Date 2006-04-12
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Summary: smartmontools release 5.36 (STABLE)
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This is a stable smartmontools release. The 5.34 version
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described just below was never officially released because
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Bruce Allen decided to wait until Linux support for
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accessing SATA devices through libata was in the official
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kernel.org sources. Changes include:
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- Win 2000/XP:ability to cancel drive self-tests
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- Additions to the table of known drives
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- FreeBSD support for 3ware char device interface and
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multiple 3ware cards
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- Various cygwin improvements for running as service
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- Works 'out of the box' with Linux SATA libata
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- smartd option added to list test schedules
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- smartctl option added to list part of drive database
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- various improvements for SCSI disks and logs
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Date 2005-04-19
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Summary: smartmontools release 5.34 (STABLE)
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This is a stable smartmontools release. It includes:
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- OS/2 and eComStation support
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All Platforms:
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- Printing of drive family info
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- SCSI disks: output size of grown defect list
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- Added info about drive family to 'smartctl -i' output.
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- Added option ',q' for smartd '-n' directive to suppress
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'skipping checks' message which may spin up laptop disk.
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- Added message if smartd '-n' check power mode spins up disk.
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Cygwin and Windows:
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- Added info about Windows version and service pack to banner line.
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- Added support for smartd '-n' directive for Win2000/XP.
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- Added support for READ_LOG for WinNT4 also.
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- Fixed bug that prevents display of empty logs on Win2000/XP
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- Fixed use of cached smart enabled state in 'smartctl -i' output.
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Windows:
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- Fixed bug that prevents running smartd as service on WinNT4.
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Date 2004-9-5
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Summary: smartmontools release 5.33 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL)
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This is an unstable/experimental release of smartmontools. It includes
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- support for Darwin/Mac OSX
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- support for OpenBSD
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- support for 3ware ATA RAID controllers under FreeBSD
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- support for 3ware 9500 series SATA RAID controllers under
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Linux. Use /dev/twa[0-15] devices to access these.
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- support for 3ware character device interfaces /dev/twe[0-15]
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under Linux. This allows (for example) Selective Self-tests.
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- support for Marvell chip-set based SATA controllers under Linux.
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- smartd mail now works also under Windows (using "Blat" mailer).
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- smartd can now be run as a Windows service.
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Please report sucess/failure with these items to the
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smartmontools-support mailing list.
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Date 2004-7-5
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Summary: smartmontools release 5.32 (STABLE)
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This is an stable release of smartmontools.
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Note added 2004/7/7: users building a Solaris/Intel version of the code should
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modify the 'configure' file, changing "pc-*-solaris*" on line 106
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to read "*-pc-solaris*". Reference:
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http://smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net/smartmontools/sm5/configure.in?r1=1.83&r2=1.84
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Date: 2004-5-4
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Summary: smartmontools release 5.31 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL)
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This is an unstable/experimental release of smartmontools. It includes
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several new features:
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- Windows smartd daemon
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- smartd now monitors current and pending sector counts
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- Support for ATA-7 selective self-test features (Linux/NetBSD only)
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Please report sucess/failure with this option to the smartmontools-support
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mailing list.
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Date: 2004-3-6
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Summary: smartmontools release 5.30 (STABLE)
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This is a stable release of smartmontools: the first stable release
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since 5.26.
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- KNOWN BUG (identified/fixed by CF): smartd will segv and crash if
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the configuration file /etc/smartd.conf contains NO valid entries.
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This bug was introduced in version 1.259 of smartd.c by BA and
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is present in smartmontools releases 5.27-5.30 inclusive. This can
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be fixed by editing line 3165 of smartd.c, and changing:
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"else if (cfgentries[0]) {"
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to read:
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"else if (cfgentries && cfgentries[0]) {"
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Date: 2004-2-24
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Summary: smartmontools release 5.29 (Experimental, not STABLE)
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This is another experimental release, to replace the 5.27 release that
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had a damaged configure script. The next stable release will be 5.30
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- This release has SCSI support for NetBSD
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Date: 2004-2-12
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Summary: smartmontools release 5.27 (Experimental, not STABLE)
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- WARNING: this release has a broken --prefix=/a/path option to the
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configure script. The consequence is that smartd will not look for the
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configuration file (smartd.conf) at the desired location.
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- NetBSD support added
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- A new Directive (-s) for smartd.conf now enables flexible automatic
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scheduled self-testing for both ATA and SCSI devices.
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- Solaris now has ATA device support (SPARC only)
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- A new Directive (-n) for smartd.conf to avoid spinning up disks
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- Errors when smartd sends mail are now logged to SYSLOG
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- Solaris smartd mail now works correctly (uses mailx not mail)
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Date: 2003-11-29
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Summary: smartmontools release 5.26
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This is a stable smartmontools release. The only known problem is
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that under Solaris, the email features of smartd do not work 'out of
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the box'. Three workarounds are:
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[1] use '-M exec mailx' in /etc/smartd.conf
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[2] in the start script for smartd, put /usr/ucb into PATH before
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/bin
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[3] upgrade to release 5.27 or later, or the latest CVS snapshot
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Date: 2003-11-19
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Summary: smartmontools release 5.25
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This release should not hang when accessing USB devices. It provides
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smartd SCSI self-test log monitoring for self-test errors, and a
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larger table of known ATA drives. DEVICESCAN should work correctly
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even on file systems containing XFS or JFS partitions, and on machines
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that use devfs, even without traditional links.
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From this time on, even numbered releases will be 'stable' ones and
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odd numbered releases (like 5.25) will be unstable/testing/development
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releases.
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Date: 2003-10-30
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Summary: smartmontools release 5.23
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This release has one known problem: DEVICESCAN device scanning does
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not work correctly if the disk with the /dev directory also has XFS
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or JFS file systems on it.
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Date: 2003-10-28
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Summary: smartmontools release 5.22
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Replaces flawed 5.21 release: the -T verypermissive option had to be
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entered as -T verpermissive. First experimental solaris support (SCSI
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only). This release had a serious flaw: smartd left open file descriptors
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for devices that it couldn't monitor.
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Date: 2003-10-14
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Summary: smartmontools release 5.21
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Preliminary support for FreeBSD added to smartmontools. For FreeBSD,
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ATA support requires a 5.1-CURRENT kernel while SCSI support should
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work across multiple versions (any that support CAM).
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Date: 2003-10-04
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Summary: smartmontools release 5.20
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Replaces flawed 5.19 release (which had a zero-length man page
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smartd.conf.5).
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Date: 2003-10-03
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Summary: smartmontools release 5.19
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This is the first release of smartmontools based on autoconf/automake.
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For this reason, it is a very experimental release. Please let us
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know in particular about documenation errors/omissions, missing or
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unneccesary files, and similar oversights. The major changes are:
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[1] installation scripts based on autoconfig/automake
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[2] ./configure [options] lets you set arbitrary paths
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[3] supports FHS with ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
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[4] correct paths are inserted into all man pages, binaries, etc.
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[5] tarballs and RPMs are now GPG-signed
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Date: 2003-10-02 11:35
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Summary: smartd SEGV
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Some versions of smartd, including smartmontools release 5.1-18, will
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SEGV if the combination of Directives in /etc/smartd.conf contains
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-l error
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AND/OR
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-l selftest
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without any Attribute monitoring Directives. This is fixed in 5.19
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and above.
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A good workaround is to add:
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-o on
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OR
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-o off
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to enable or disable automatic offline data collection.
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Date: 2002-11-17 07:41
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Summary: testunitready bug in smartd
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A bug in smartd prevented functioning on scsi devices.
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The bug in question only affects smartd users with scsi devices.
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To see if your version of smartd has the testunitready() bug, do
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smartd -V
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If the version of the module smartd.c in a line like:
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Module: smartd.c revision: 1.66 date: 2002/11/17
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has a revision greater than or equal to 1.30, and less than or
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equal to 1.64, then your version of the code has this problem.
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This problem affected releases starting with RELEASE_5_0_16 up to and
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including RELEASE_5_0_43.
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