1 CHANGELOG for smartmontools
3 $Id: CHANGELOG,v 1.592 2006/12/20 20:39:25 chrfranke Exp $
5 The most recent version of this file is:
6 http://smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net/smartmontools/sm5/CHANGELOG?view=markup
8 Maintainers / Developers Key:
22 [EM] Eduard Martinescu
23 [FM] Frédéric L. W. Meunier
32 NOTES FOR FUTURE RELEASES: see TODO file.
34 <DEVELOPERS: ADDITIONS TO THE CHANGE LOG GO JUST BELOW HERE, PLEASE>
36 smartmontools 5.37 Experimental Release
38 [CF] Windows: Added alternate method for (limited) monitoring of
39 3ware controllers by parsing the output of CLI or 3DM.
40 Either "tw_cli" can be run internally ("/dev/tw_cli/cx/py"),
41 or data can be read from standard input ("/dev/tw_cli/stdin")
42 or clipboard ("/dev/tw_cli/clip").
44 [DG] Remove linux specific libata detect code; rely on general SAT
45 code. smartd should now generate a sensible log message for
46 ATA devices behind a SAT layer on all architectures.
48 [BA] Increased max line length MAXLINELEN for /etc/smartd.conf from
49 128 to 256 characters to handle long strings in
50 /dev/disk/by-id. Thanks to Martin Krafft.
52 [PW] Drive database: added missing drives from Seagate Momentus 5400.2
55 [BA] Finished Christian's fix (next item below) by removing
56 LINUX_86_64 hack from configure.in.
58 [CF] Fixed inclusion of PRI?64 macros from inttypes.h.
60 [CF] Windows: Added WRITE LOG to support selective self tests.
62 [CF] Fix selective self test log revision number if '-T permissive'
63 is specified (Tested with Samsung HD401LJ).
65 [CF] Windows: Fixed int64 printf format for MinGW runtime.
67 [PW] Drive database: added Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 family, Seagate
68 Momentus 42 family, Maxtor DiamondMax 60 ATA 66 family, Maxtor
69 DiamondMax 60 ATA 100 family, and Western Digital Caviar Serial
72 [PW] Drive database: added missing drives from Seagate Barracuda
73 7200.9 family, Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 family, Seagate Momentus
74 7200.1 family, Toshiba 2.5" HDD family (80 GB and above), Western
75 Digital Caviar RE Serial ATA family, Hitachi Deskstar 7K80 family,
76 and Maxtor DiamondMax 4320 Ultra ATA family
78 [BA] Linux: compile fix for SuSE. Check for existence
79 of linux/compiler.h and include in os_linux.h if
80 present. Thanks to SB.
82 [BA] smartd: DEVICESCAN will now pick up SATA/SAT devices
83 attached to a SCSI device tree via SAT translation.
84 Note: this is a bit of a hack. I will document it once
85 I know if this needs to be Linux only or can have more
88 [BA] Added a couple SATA commands to the tables -- thanks DG!
89 Phil -- how about going through and systematically adding
90 these new commands to atacmdnames.cpp?
92 [BA] Linux s86_64: get rid of some compiler warnings on
95 [CF] Windows: Added missing support for READ_LOG, ABORT_SELFTEST
96 and CHECK_POWER_STATE for 3ware 9000 controllers. Thanks to
97 Greg de Valois for implementing this new ioctl in the driver.
99 [PW] Drive database: added Seagate NL35 SATA family. Thanks to Kai
100 Harrekilde-Petersen for providing a patch.
102 [DG] [SCSI, Windows] add SPT interface for NT and later. New device
103 names are "pd<n>", "sd<l>" and "tape<n>".
105 [PW] Drive database: added Western Digital Scorpio family, Fujitsu MHV
106 family, Maxtor MaXLine Pro 500 family, and Maxtor DiamondMax 11
109 [PW] Drive database: added missing drives from Toshiba 2.5" HDD
110 (30-60 GB) family, Maxtor DiamondMax 10 family, Seagate Barracuda
111 7200.8 family, Fujitsu MHT family, and Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8
114 [SB] Added examplescripts/Example4 using powersave-notify.
116 [SB] More temperature monitoring examples in smartd.conf with DEVICESCAN.
118 [SB] Minor improvements of SuSE part of init script.
120 [CF] Drive database: added Samsung P80 series, P120 series, SP8004H
123 [GG] Add CCISS (Compaq Smart Array Controller) support with contributions
124 from Praveen Chidambaram, Douglas Gilbert, Guido Guenther and Frédéric
127 [PW] Drive database: added Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 and Hitachi
128 Deskstar 7K500 series. Thanks to L. J. Wu for providing a
131 [PW] Drive database: added Maxtor MaXLine III family, Seagate U7
132 family, Seagate ST34321A, FUJITSU MHM2060AT, FUJITSU MHT2040AS,
133 Western Digital Caviar SE16 family, IBM Travelstar 4GT family,
134 QUANTUM FIREBALLP KA9.1, QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3A, TOSHIBA
135 MK1032GAX, TOSHIBA MK4026GAX
137 [PW] Drive database: added missing drives from Western Digital Caviar
138 SE (Serial ATA) and WD Raptor families
140 [CF] Windows: Added support for 3ware 9000 controllers using extended
141 SMART functionality in new 3ware driver. This includes DEVICESCAN
142 support for at most 2 controllers. Thanks to Greg de Valois from
143 AMCC/3ware for new driver features, development support and
144 hardware for testing.
146 [SZ] smartd: Support HighPoint RocketRAID controller under GNU/linux
148 [DG] [SCSI] First cut for '-l background' to show background scan
151 [SZ] smartctl: Support HighPoint RocketRAID controller under GNU/linux
153 [KS] C++ compile fixes for Solaris with a few cleanups.
155 [BA] C++ compile fixes for Darwin (thanks to CF)
157 [CF] Removed old *.c files (now in CVS Attic).
159 [CF] Added changes for C++ to platform independent and Windows
162 [BA] Tagged last .c Version with PRE_MOVE_TO_CPP. Copied *.c,v
163 to *.cpp,v in CVS repository to preserve history of source
164 files. Removed sm5_Darwin repository.
166 [CF] smartctl: Added -n option to skip checks when disk is in
169 [CF] Windows: Added alternate system call for power state check
170 because the PASS THROUGH calls may spin up the disk.
172 [CF] smartd: Modified power state logging to report state changes
173 instead of standby condition.
175 [CF] smartd: Ignore -n directive on scheduled self tests.
177 [DG] [SCSI] Make start stop cycle counter log page decoding
180 [DG] Modify smartctl (but not smartd) to detect probable ATA
181 devices behind a SAT layer. In the absence of an explicit
182 device type, change to device type 'sat'.
184 [DG] Add indication that controller (device) type has been
185 explicitly set. Preparation for automatic detection of
186 'sat' device type unless user specifies a device type.
188 [SS] NetBSD: Deliver strings from ata_identify_device properly
189 on little- and big-endian platforms.
191 [BA] Added published ANSI ATA-7 spec to list of recognized ATA
194 [BA] Code janitor: added missing header strings for '-V' option.
196 [DG] [SATA] Extend 'sat' device type to allow either 12 or 16 byte
197 variant of the SAT ATA PASS THROUGH SCSI command. Syntax is
198 '-d sat,<n>' where <n> can be 0, 12 or 16 . The ',<n>' part
199 is optional. Currently defaults to 16 byte variant but that
200 could be made platform or even device dependent.
202 [DG] [SATA] Add new 'sat' device type for SATA disks behind a
203 SCSI to ATA Translation (SAT) Layer (SATL). Uses the ATA
204 PASS THROUGH (16) SCSI command thence the generic SCSI
205 passthrough for each platform.
207 [CF] Windows: Added script and make targets to create installer
208 with NSIS (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/)
210 [CF] Updated hostname and links for new SourceForge CVS service.
212 [CF] smartd: Added '-W' directive to track temperature changes
213 and warn if temperature limits are reached.
215 [CF] Windows: Added IOCTL_ATA_PASS_THROUGH (Win2003, XP SP2)
216 for commands unsupported by SMART_IOCTL. Added device
217 specific options to select subset and ordering of the ATA
218 IOCTLs actually used. These options are specified as
219 modifiers of the device name (/dev/hd[a-j]:[saic]+)
221 [CF] Windows: Added support for drives 4-7 (/dev/hd[e-h]) via
222 SMARTVSE.VXD on Win9x/ME. Thanks to Dariusz Rzonca for
225 [DG] [SCSI/SATA linux] from lk 2.6.17 SATA disk identification in
226 libata will change. Expand LibAta detection to see old
227 identifier and new variant (VPD page 0x83).
229 [BA] Identified Attribute 190 for Western Digital disks. This
230 stores temperature in Celsius, just like Attribute 194.
231 But it has a failure threshold set to correspond to the
232 maximum design operating temperature of the disk, which
233 is 55 Celsius on the WD800JD drives that I studied.
234 So if this Attribute has 'failed
235 in the past' this means that the maximum disk operating
236 temperature has been exceeded.
238 [GK] Darwin: Add support for AHCI drivers found in Intel-based Macs.
240 smartmontools 5.36 Stable Release
242 [BA] Linux: smartd/smartctl issue syntax hints to user if 3ware
243 disk controller present with EITHER 3ware OR AMCC vendor
244 name, and user syntax incorrect.
246 [BA] Update copyright dates to 2006.
248 [DG] [SCSI] Loosen sanity check on Seagate/Hitachi factory information
249 log page so it is not skipped on recent Seagate SCSI disks.
251 [CF] Added command 'smartd -q showtests' to list test schedules.
253 [CF] Added command 'smartctl -P showall MODEL [FIRMWARE]' to list
254 database entries for specific drives and firmware.
256 [PW] Automatically set -v 9,minutes and -v 194,unknown for Maxtor
257 DiamondMax D540X-4G drives.
259 [DG] [SCSI] suppress various outputs when data fails sanity checks.
260 Correct 'last n error events' log page indexing.
262 [DG] [SCSI] changed smartctl exit status to reflect any problems in
263 the most recent 20 self test logs [Leandro Santi]
265 [DG] [SCSI] Fix process return value when scsiGetSmartData() fails
266 in smartctl [Leandro Santi]
268 [BA] Updated docs and error message to reflect Linux libata
269 support for smartmontools starting with the 2.6.15 kernel
270 series. Also init script support for the 'tinysofa' release.
272 [DG] [SCSI] Mask dpofua bit when changing mode pages. Fix failure
273 of 'smartctl -l error'.
275 [EM] Fixed a problem with FreeBSD and 3Ware 'twe' devices
277 [CF] Fixed a regexp in knowndrives table, added regexp syntax check
278 via 'smartctl -P showall'.
280 [CF] Cygwin & Windows: Fixed memory leak in function calling
281 IOCTL_IDE_PASS_THROUGH. Thanks to Fred Schmidt for the problem
284 [CF] Cygwin: added cygrunsrv support and commands "install", "remove"
285 and "status" to smartd.initd.
287 [SS] Fix runtime problems on big-engian NetBSD platforms (patch provided
290 [CF] Cygwin smartd: Open smartd.conf in textmode to allow use of
293 [CF] Cygwin smartd: Added option '--service' to allow smartd running
294 as windows service via cygrunsrv. Useful in conjunction with new
295 syslogd support added in Cygwin 1.5.15.
297 [CF] Windows: Added patch to avoid output of non-ascii timezone names.
299 [EM] Incorporate various patches to provide TWE support and support for
300 multiple 3Ware cards, Power Check Support, and FreeBSD 6.x support.
301 Thanks to Rudolf Cejka, Frank Behrens, and Jung-uk Kim.
303 [DG] Silence gcc 4.0.1 compile warning concerning the difference in
304 "signedness" in pointer assignments. Changes to SCSI code
307 [PW] Additions to knowndrives table: added missing drive from Quantum
308 Fireball Plus LM series, added QUANTUM BIGFOOT TS10.0A, added
309 ExcelStor J680 and J880, added Western Digital Caviar RE Serial ATA
310 series, added missing drives from Western Digital Caviar SE series,
311 added Seagate Momentus 4200.2 series, added missing drives from
312 Maxtor DiamondMax 10 series, added Fujitsu MHG and MHH series, and
313 added Hitachi Travelstar 5K100 series.
315 [PW] Additions to knowndrives table: added Fujitsu MHU2100AT, added
316 Fujitsu M1623TAU, added missing drives from Seagate Barracuda
317 7200.8 series, added Seagate Momentus 5400.2 series, and added
318 QUANTUM FIREBALL CR8.4A.
320 [PW] Additions to knowndrives table: added missing drive from Maxtor
321 MaxLine II series, added Maxtor DiamondMax 2880 Ultra ATA series,
322 added Maxtor DiamondMax 17 VL series, added Hitachi Deskstar 7K80
323 series, and added Hitachi Deskstar 7K400 series.
325 [CF] Windows: Fixed unsupported 'smartctl -X' on Win2000/XP by using
326 IOCTL_IDE_PASS_THROUGH instead.
328 smartmontools 5.34 Stable Release [NOTE: never officially released]
330 [CF] Cygwin & Windows smartd: Increased SCSI DEVICESCAN range
331 from ASPI adapter 0-3 to 0-9. Added diagnostic messages.
333 [CF] Windows smartd: Added ability to run .bat files via '-M exec'
336 [CF] Cygwin smartd: Added FreeConsole() after fork() to avoid hang
337 of terminated shell console window.
339 [DG] [SCSI] Add code so 'smartctl -A' outputs the number of elements
340 in the grown defect list. When this number is increasing a
341 disk has problems. N.B. Similar logic should be added to smartd.
343 [CF] Windows smartd: Fixed event handling to allow start of another
344 smartd process when service is already running. Useful for testing
345 service configuration changes in debug mode.
347 [PW] Added following drives to knowndrives table: Western Digital Raptor
348 family, Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 family, Maxtor DiamondMax 2160
349 Ultra ATA and DiamondMax 10 families, Hitachi Travelstar E7K60
350 family, Seagate Medalist 17240, 13030, 10231, 8420, and 4310,
351 TOSHIBA MK4018GAP and MK6022GAX, ExcelStor Technology J360, and
352 Western Digital Caviar AC14300.
354 [PW] Added missing Fujitsu MHTxxxxAT and Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 drives
355 to knowndrives table.
357 [PW] Added QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM10.2 to knowndrives table. Thanks to
358 Mike Fleetwood for submitting the patch.
360 [KS] Solaris/SPARC: fixed not to disable automatic offline test and
361 automatic save attributes incorrectly. Thanks to Roy Badami.
363 [BA] Linux: smartd init script now recognizes 'trustix' distro.
365 [DG] [SCSI] Medium and hardware errors were slipping through
366 unreported. Fix linux SCSI sense reporting via SG_IO ioctl.
368 [DG] [SCSI] Change lba of first failure in selftest output to
369 decimal (was hex) to conform with ATA output.
371 [GK] smartd: Detect most self-test failures even if the hour counter
374 [BA] smartctl: list 'marvell' as option if user give invalid
377 [CF] Windows: fixed SCSI timeout handling to allow long timeouts
380 [CF] Fixed buffer overflow issues in printone() and safe_vsnprintf()
381 which results in crash on -V option (at least on Windows).
383 [DG] [SCSI] Add explicit timeouts to INQUIRY and REQUEST SENSE (that
384 were missed in an earlier patch). Could have impacted freebsd.
386 [DG] When linux detects a sata_via_libata disk suggest that user try
387 '-d ata' (rather then '-d libata). Anticipate kernel change.
389 [YD] Added OS/2 and eComStation platform support.
391 [PW] Added Seagate U4 family, Fujitsu MHJ and MHK families, Seagate
392 Barracuda 5400.1, QUANTUM FIREBALLP KX27.3, QUANTUM FIREBALLP KA10.1,
393 and ExcelStor J340 to knowndrives table.
395 [DG] [SCSI] After report of Hitachi IC35L073UCDY10 disks locking up
396 on log page 0x7 (last n error events), check log page (and some
397 others) is supported (via log page 0x0) before probing.
399 [CF] Added safe_v?snprintf() for platforms using v?snprintf()
400 with non standard behaviour on overflow (Windows, old Linux)
402 [CF] smartd: Added message if check power mode spins up disk.
404 [CF] Windows: Added support for READ_LOG on WinNT4 using undocumented
405 pseudo SCSI command via IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH.
407 [CF] smartd: Added ',q' option for '-n' directive to suppress 'skipping
408 checks' log message. This prevents a laptop disk from spinning up
409 due to this message. Thanks to Rob MacLachlan and Manfred Schwarb
410 for pointing out problem & solution.
412 [CF] Windows: Added function get_os_version_str() to show OS flavor in
415 [CF] Windows: Added function ata_identify_is_cached() to check for outdated
416 SMART enabled bit in identify data.
418 [CF] Windows: Added fix to prevent linkage of smartd specific win32 modules
421 [PW] Added Fujitsu MPG3153AH, Hitachi Endurastar J4K20/N4K20 (formerly
422 DK23FA-20J), Seagate Momentus family, and Maxtor Fireball 3 family
423 to knowndrives table.
425 [PW] Added missing Maxtor DiamondMax 16, Seagate Barracuda ATA IV, and
426 Western Digital Caviar WDxxxAA/WDxxxBA drives to knowndrives table.
428 [CF] Windows: Added ATA check power mode for smartd -n directive.
430 [CF] Windows: Fixed use of new service status flag which causes hang
431 of smartd service on WinNT4.
433 [CF] Windows: Fixed error checking of IOCTL_IDE_PASS_THROUGH (used
434 for READ_LOG on 2000/XP). Added some diagnostic messages on
435 -r ataioctl[,2]. Thanks to Manfred Schwarb for bug report and testing.
437 [BA] Fixed code bug that made it impossible to enable SMART on
438 disks with failing health status. This would happen if the
439 os_*.c author made STATUS and STATUS_CHECK work the same way.
440 I have corrected this at a higher level; we now handle the
441 case where STATUS and STATUS_CHECK are identical without
444 [LW] Make os_linux.c/marvell_command_interface() always return 0 on STATUS.
445 Needed for a disk having bad SMART status.
447 [CF] smartctl: Added drive family printing.
449 [CF] autogen.sh: Allow automake 1.9, added message if automake
452 [BA] smartctl: use locale-specific separators for printing disk
453 capacity. Also use AC_CHECK_HEADERS not AC_CHECK_HEADER in
456 [BA] clean-up of #include structure so that -V options to smartd
457 and smartctl work correctly. Please, don't #include header
458 files into other header files.
460 smartmontools 5.33 Experimental Release
462 [BA] smartctl: ATA disks, if SMART ATTRIBUTE THRESHOLDS page has ID
463 errors with some Attributes having NULL IDs, print Attribute
464 info anyway (but issuing a warning to the user).
466 [DG] [SCSI] Decode Last n error events log page; decode track following
467 and positioning errors [Hitachi]
469 [EM] FreeBSD: another tweak, __packed__ introduced in Version 5.0040
471 [EM] Cleaner tweak of fixes for FreeBSD 4.x.
473 [EM] Fix compilation errors under FreeBSD 4.x, as it is still using
476 [EM] Remove 3ware/FreeBSD specific files and just include pieces we need
478 [DG] Add logic in smartd to detect 3ware, Marvell controllers and SATA
479 disks behind an ATA-SCSI simulator (in Linux). If specific device
480 types are not given and they are picked in a general SCSI device
481 scan then warn and skip.
483 [GG] insert correct path to smartd into smartd's init script
485 [BA] Changed all default paths in documentation to reflect /usr/local as
486 default path prefix. This affects on-line man pages, primarily.
488 [DS] Added support for OpenBSD
490 [BA] Added another environment variable SMART_FULLMESSAGE set by
491 the smartd mailing feature, and modified examplescripts/Example1
494 [BA] Fixed potentially misleading messages of the form:
497 [DG] emit warning if SATA disk detected using libata in Linux; then exit
499 [PW] Added Seagate U10 family, Hitachi Travelstar 7K60, Fujitsu MHR2020AT,
500 and QUANTUM FIREBALLP AS20.5 to knowndrives table.
502 [DG] Detect 3ware and Marvell controllers from SCSI INQUIRY vendor string
503 and suggest usage of appropriate '-d' argument in smartctl.
505 [LW] Tested the RELEASE_5_33_WITH_MARVELL_SUPPORT branch on
506 actual Marvell 88SX5041 hardware, with success.
509 [BA] Fixed nasty DEVICESCAN bug
511 [BA] Checked in RELEASE_5_33_WITH_MARVELL_SUPPORT branch with
512 some Marvell support.
514 [BA] Additional modifications of Ed's controller scheme. Fixed
515 broken 3ware support under linux, problems with scanning
516 devices in smartd, and other small problems.
518 [CF] Added make targets to build formatted man pages (htmlman, txtman),
519 Windows distribution (dist-win32) and MSVC6 config.h (config-vc6).
521 [EM] Minor change to FreeBSD inclusion of 'twe' include files. Add
522 code to check if they exising in /usr/include/sys to use those
523 in preference to ones added here
525 [EM] Very preliminary support attempt for 3Ware controllers under
526 FreeBSD. Also, switched 'escalade_type/escalade_port' to
527 'controler_type/controller_port' and moved away from
528 'tryata/tryscsi' to using new 'controller*' variables to
529 determine which controller type (ATA/SCSI/3Ware) to use.
531 [GK] Added initscript support for Darwin.
533 [CF] Windows smartd: Added ability to run smartd as a windows service,
534 including new commands "smartd install ..." and "smartd remove"
535 to install and remove the service registry entry.
537 [BA] smartd: warn user if -s regexp regular expression contains
538 characters other than 0123456789.*()|+?[-]{}:=SLCO since such
539 characters are 'suspicous' and may indicate a poorly formed
540 regexp. Extended regular expression gurus: can this list be
543 [CF] Fixed bug in Windows smartd: Missing close of config file when
544 configuration is reloaded by smartd daemon.
546 [CF] Windows smartd: Added mail warning feature using the "Blat"
547 (http://blat.sourceforge.net/) mailer as a default.
549 [PW] Added Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 5120 Ultra ATA 33 series and TOSHIBA
550 MK3017GAP to knowndrives table.
552 [CF] Added fixes to build smartmontools on old Linux systems
553 (libc < 6, Kernel 2.0.x).
555 [BA] Added ATA minor version identity strings for latest ATA specification
556 updates: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 4a and ATA/ATAPI-6 published,
559 [PW] Added Hitachi Travelstar 5K80 family and Fujitsu MHTxxxxAH family to
562 [EM] Fix up compilation under FreeBSD < 5.x
564 [PW] Added QUANTUM FIREBALL EX3.2A and missing Western Digital Caviar SE
565 drives to knowndrives table.
567 [BA] Modified Hitachi Travelstar 80GN family regexp in drive database.
568 Thanks to [GK/CF] for problem & solution.
570 [GK] Added os_darwin.[ch]
572 [PW] Added the following drives to the knowndrives table: IBM Travelstar
573 48GH, 30GN, and 15GN family; IBM Deskstar 37GP and 34GXP family;
574 Western Digital WDC WD272AA; Maxtor DiamondMax D540X-4D family;
575 TOSHIBA MK2016GAP, MK2018GAP, MK2018GAS, MK2023GAS; and
576 QUANTUM FIREBALL ST3.2A
578 [BA] smartd/smarctl now print build HOST/OS information as part
579 of startup slogan. This should make it slightly easier to
580 read bug reports from users.
582 [RZ] Fixed the DEVICESCAN to do what it was supposed to do - give
583 error message unless scanning is in progress.
585 [BA] Update documentation to describe 3ware character devices. Better
586 error detection for missing/malfunctioning devices behind 3ware
587 controllers. Now pack 3ware ioctl structures explicitly.
589 [BA] For ATA devices that support LBA mode, print capacity as part
592 [RZ] Made DEVICESCAN quiet about non-existing devices unless debug
595 [DG] treat "unit attention" SCSI warning as try again in some contexts
596 (test unit ready and mode sense)
598 [BA] on drives that store max/min rather than min/max, get order
599 correct in printing temp.
601 [BA] fixed typo in 'smartctl -h' output. Thanks to Gabor Z. Papp.
603 [BA] linux: clean-up to 3ware/AMCC support; dynamically create
604 or fix /dev/tw[ae][0-15] device node entries if they don't
605 exist or are incorrect. One can now use the character devices
606 /dev/twe[0-15] OR /dev/sd? for 3ware 6000/7000/8000 series
607 cards. One must use /dev/twa[0-15] for 3ware 9000 series cards.
608 Note that selective self-tests now work via /dev/tw[ae] devices.
609 Next step: documentation.
611 [BA] linux: experimental "support" for 3ware/AMCC 9000 series
612 controllers that use the 3w-9xxx driver. This will be in a
613 state of flux for a few days. Note that this requires the
614 character interface /dev/twa[0-15].
616 [DG] linux: extend general SCSI OS interface to use the SG_IO ioctl. If
617 not available, use the older SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND ioctl.
619 [KS] Solaris/x86: fixed system identification problem in configure
620 script. Thanks to Stuart Swales.
624 [BA] Update link to revised/updated IBM Deskstar Firmware
626 [CF] Cygwin & Windows: Added missing ASPI manager initialization
627 with GetASPI32SupportInfo(). Thanks to Nikolai SAOUKH for pointing
628 this out and providing a patch.
630 [BA] modified smartd init script to work on whitebox (thanks to
633 [BA] removed (reverted) additional Attribute definitions from
634 http://smart.friko.pl/attributes.php. All (or most?) of these
635 appear to be return code values for the WD Digital Life Guard Utility.
637 [PW] Added Seagate Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422, and 4312 to
638 knowndrives table. Added missing Seagate U Series 5 drives.
640 [PW] Added the following QUANTUM models to knowndrives table:
641 FIREBALL EX6.4A, FIREBALLP AS10.2, FIREBALLP AS40.0, FIREBALL CR4.3A,
642 FIREBALLP LM15, FIREBALLP LM30, and FIREBALLlct20 30
644 [PW] Added missing Western Digital Protege drives to knowndrives table.
646 [PW] Added Maxtor DiamondMax 40 ATA 66 series and DiamondMax 40 VL Ultra
647 ATA 100 series to knowndrives table.
649 [PW] Added the following Hitachi/IBM drives to knowndrives table:
650 HITACHI_DK14FA-20B, Travelstar 40GNX series, Travelstar 4LP series,
651 and Travelstar DK23XXB series. Added the missing Travelstar 80GN
654 [PW] Added Fujitsu MPB series and MPG series to knowndrives table. Added
655 the missing Fujitsu MHSxxxxAT drives.
657 [KS] Solaris: added workaround for dynamic change of time-zone.
659 [KS] Solaris: fixed problem that autogen.sh cannot detect absence of
662 [BA] smartd: added time-zone bug information to man page.
663 Reverted CF code for _WIN32 case.
665 [CF] Cygwin & Windows: Added better error messages on IDE/ATA device
668 [BA] added additional Attribute definitions from
669 http://smart.friko.pl/attributes.php
671 [BA] smartd: reworked TimeZone bug workaround so it is only invoked
672 for glibc. Note: this might not be right -- a similar bug may
673 exist in other platform's libcs.
675 [DG] SCSI smartmontools documentation updated [2004/5/6]. See:
676 http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/smartmontools_scsi.html
678 [CF] Windows: Fixed reset of TZ=GMT in glibc timezone bug workaround.
682 [DG] move SCSI device temperature and start-stop log page output
683 (smartctl) into --attributes section (was in --info section).
685 [GG] change default installation location to /usr/local
687 [CF] Cygwin smartd: Fixed crash on access of SCSI devices after fork().
689 [PW] Added TOSHIBA MK4018GAS and the following Maxtor drive families
690 to knowndrives table: DiamondMax D540X-4G, Fireball 541DX,
691 DiamondMax 3400 Ultra ATA, DiamondMax Plus 6800 Ultra ATA 66.
693 [PW] Added missing Maxtor DiamondMax 16, DiamondMax D540X-4K, and
694 DiamondMax Plus 45 Ulta ATA 100 drives to knowndrives table.
696 [PW] Added ExcelStor J240, Hitachi Travelstar 80GN family, Fujitsu
697 MHTxxxxAT family, and IBM Deskstar 25GP and 22GXP families to
700 [CF] Cygwin smartd: Added workaround for missing SIGQUIT via keyboard:
701 To exit smartd in debug mode, type CONTROL-C twice.
703 [BA] smartctl: printing of the selective self-test log is now
704 controlled by a new option: -l selective
706 [BA] Added entries for Samsung firmware versions -25 to -39 based
707 on latest info about firmware bug fixes.
709 [PW] Added Seagate U Series X family, Seagate U8 family, and Seagate
710 Medalist 8641 family to knowndrives table.
712 [CF] smartd: Added exit values 5/6 for missing/unreadable config file.
714 [BA] smartd: now monitor the Current Pending Sector count (Attribute 197)
715 and the Offline Pending Sector Count (Attribute 198). Log a
716 warning (and send an email, if so configured) if the raw count
717 is nonzero. These are controlled by new Directives: -C and -U.
718 Currently they are enabled by default.
720 [CF] Added option -c FILE, --configfile=FILE to smartd to specify
721 an alternate configuration FILE or '-' for standard input.
723 [KS] configure.in now searches for -lnsl and -lsocket for Solaris.
725 [CF] Win32/native smartd: Added thread to combine several syslog output
726 lines into one single event log entry.
728 [CF] Win32 smartd: Added DEVICESCAN for SCSI/ASPI devices.
730 [GG] Use gethostbyname() the get the DNS domain since getdomainname()
731 returns the NIS domain when sending mails from smartd.
733 [GG] smartd.init.in: pass smartd_opts to smartd on startup, read distribution
734 specific configuration files if found
736 [SS] smartctl: added NetBSD support for Selective Self-tests.
738 [BA] smartd.conf example configuration file now has all examples
739 commented out except for 'DEVICESCAN'.
741 [CF] Win32/native smartd: Added ability to display warning "emails"
742 as message box by "-m msgbox" directive. With "-m sysmsgbox",
743 a system modal (always on top) message box is shown.
745 [BA] smartctl: printing of self-test log for disks that support
746 Selective self-testing now shows the status of the (optional)
747 read-scan after the selective self test. Also, changed format
748 in printing self-test log to print failing LBA in base 10 not
749 base 16 (more compatible with kernel error messages). Also,
750 in printing SMART error log, print timestamps in format
751 days+hours+minutes+seconds.
753 [CF] Win32 smartd: Added ability to log to stdout/stderr
754 (-l local1/2). Toggling debug console still works
755 if stdout is redirected.
757 [BA] smartctl: selective self-test log, print current status
758 in a more detailed way. Allow writing of selective self-test
759 log provided that no other self-test is underway.
761 [BA] Linux: eliminated dependency on kernel tree hdreg.h.
763 [BA] smartctl: -l selftest option now prints Selective self-test
764 log in addition to the normal self-test log.
765 Added additional options (-t pending, -t afterselect) to
766 control remaining Selective Self-test capabilities. Tested
767 with several Maxtor disks. Modified error message printing
768 so that munged option messages print at the end not the
771 [CF] Added daemon support to Win32 native version of smartd.
772 The daemon can be controlled by commands similar to initd
773 scripts: "smartd status|stop|reload|restart|sigusr1|sigusr2".
775 [CF] Added minor support for option "-l local[0-7]" to Win32 native
776 (not Cygwin) version of smartd. If specified, the log output
777 is written to file "./smartd[1-7]?.log" instead of event log.
779 [BA] Added Selective Self-test to smartctl (-t selective,M-N).
780 Currently only supported under Linux; Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD
781 and Windows developers must add WRITE LOG functionality to
784 [BA] Added workaround for an annoying glibc bug: if you change
785 timezones, (eg, flying with a laptop from USA to Europe)
786 localtime() does not notice this in a running
787 executable, so time that appears in the system log (syslog!)
788 will be incorrect. See
789 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=48184
790 for additional examples of this bug.
792 [DG] Set explicit timeouts for SCSI commands (most default to 6 seconds).
793 Previously a 0 second timeout was meant to be interpreted as a
794 default timeout but the FreeBSD port had a problem in this area.
796 [CF] Fixed un-thread-safe exit signal handler for Win32
798 [BA] Fixed un-thread-safe exit signal handler pointed out
801 [BA] Changed configure script to eliminate warnings under
802 Solaris from sys/int_type.h conflicts with int64.h
803 Added header files for umask to smartd.c.
805 [BA] Man page format change from Werner LEMBERG. " " changed to \&
807 [CF] Added os_win32/syslogevt.* event message file tool for Win32
808 smartd (native+cygwin). May also be useful for other cygwin
809 programs writing to syslog().
811 [CF] Added Win32 version of smartd
813 [CF] Merged RELEASE_5_26_WIN32_BRANCH
815 [BA] Made some changes to man page markup suggested by
816 Richard Verhoeven to work around bugs in man2html.
817 Tested not to break anything under Linux and Solaris.
819 [CF] Moved PrintOut() from utility.c to smart{ctl,d}.c to avoid
820 syslog() output of smartctl.
822 [BA] Grew worried that some time-zone names could be very long (eg,
823 Mitteleuropaische Zeit) and put date string lengths into a
824 single macro in utility.c
826 [EM] Updated os_freebsd.c to handle older versions of FreeBSD in a
827 more appropriate/obvious fashion.
829 [EM] Modified autogen.sh as FreeBSD installs automake 1.7 as
830 'automake17' and NOT 'automake-1.7'
834 [PW] Added QUANTUM FIREBALLlct15 30, QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 40, and
835 Maxtor 6Y060P0 (DiamondMax Plus 9 60GB) to knowndrives table.
837 [PW] Added Maxtor MaXLine II family to knowndrives table (thanks to
838 Brett Russ for submitting the patch).
840 [BA] Added remaining read/write commands to detailed list of
841 error log commands that have text descriptions of problem
842 printed. For commands that support it, print number of failed
843 sectors at problem LBA.
845 [BA] Made SuSE section of smartd init script more SuSE 9 compatible.
846 Thanks to Hans-Peter Jansen.
848 [CF] Windows smartd: Added IDE/ATA device scan
849 Added windows device names to smartctl.8.in, smartd.8.in
851 [BA] smartctl/smartd: user-provided '-F samsung' and '-F samsung2'
852 command line options/Directives did NOT over-ride preset values
853 unless user specified '-P ignore'. Now they will always over-ride
854 preset values from the database.
856 [BA] Added error decoding for a few more READ and WRITE commands.
858 [PW] Added Maxtor MaXLine Plus II, Western Digital Caviar SE (Serial ATA)
859 series, Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 series, and Ultra ATA 66 models of
860 the Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40 series to knowndrives table.
862 [BA] Added Maxtor Diamondmax 250 GB drives to database. Note that
863 these model numbers are not listed in Maxtor documentation, but
866 [BA] Removed the 'contact developers' phrase from the Samsung disk
869 [PW] Added TOSHIBA MK2017GAP, IBM Deskstar 14GXP and 16GP series,
870 Fujitsu MPC series, Seagate Barracuda ATA III family, and missing
871 Seagate Barracuda U Series drives to knowndrives table
873 [BA] smartd: wrong loglevel for message: Configuration file
874 /etc/smartd.conf parsed. Changed to LOG_INFO from LOG_CRIT.
875 Thanks to Emmanuel CHANTREAU for the report.
877 [CF] Checked in development version of windows code base.
879 smartmontools 5.29 (note: there was NO 5.28 release)
881 [BA] smartd: configure script did not set correct directory to search for
882 smartd.conf based on --prefix argument to ./configure. Thanks to
883 GG for identifying the problem and fix.
885 [BA] make clean now removes man pages (generated from *.in) files as well
888 [EM] Correct copying of sense data in FreeBSD SCSI implementation. Thanks
889 to Sergey Svishchev for noticing the bug.
891 [BA] On solaris, wrong warning message if no ATA support. Warning message
892 concerns 3ware controller, not ATA.
894 [SS] Added SCSI support for NetBSD.
896 [BA] on big-endian linux machines, fixed interpretation of HDIO_GET_IDENTITY
897 to correctly identify ATAPI bit (was byte swapped). This should
898 eliminate some SYSLOG noise if user queries a packet device (eg, CD
901 [PW] Removed warning for IBM Deskstar 40GV & 75GXP series drives with
902 A5AA/A6AA firmware. Thanks to Gerald Schnabel.
904 [PW] Added Toshiba TOS MK3019GAXB SUN30G to knowndrives table
906 [PW] Added Western Digital Caviar AC12500, AC24300, AC25100, AC36400,
907 and AC38400 to knowndrives table
909 [BA] When printing ATA error log, print the LBA at which READ
910 or WRITE commands failed.
912 [BA] Changed syntax of error message in smartctl
914 [BA] Added versioning info (-V options to smartd/smartctl) for
919 [KS] Added ATA/IDE support for Solaris/SPARC (ATA/IDE not yet for
922 [BA] 3ware controllers: documented that one can monitor any of the
923 physical disks from any of the 3ware /dev/sd? logical devices.
924 Better warnings if querying a disk that does not exist.
926 [PW] Added Hitachi Travelstar DK23DA series, Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40
927 series, Western Digital Caviar WDxxxAA, WDxxxBA, and WDxxxAB series
930 [BA] missing 'pragma pack' on ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE structure may have
931 caused odd or incorrect results on 64-bit machines.
933 [BA] smartctl/smartd allow inspection of self-test and error logs even
934 if disk firmware claims that these don't exist. This is needed
935 for some Maxtor disks whose firmware does not indicate log support
936 even though the disk DOES support it.
938 [BA] Improved porting instructions and documentation in os_generic.c
940 [PW] Add Western Digital Caviar WD136AA and SAMSUNG SP40A2H (RR100-07
941 firmware) to knowndrives table.
943 [EM] FreeBSD: remove extra definition of FreeNonZero
945 [BA] smartctl: the -q silent option was printing output for some
946 error conditions. Fixed. Will rename relevant variables to help
947 avoid these errors in the future.
949 [SS] NetBSD port added.
951 [BA] more sensible error messages for devfs and devfs-like systems.
952 Instead of saying that the DIRECTORY does not exist, say that
953 the DEVICE does not exist.
955 [BA] smartd: added -n Directive, to prevent disk spin-up depending
956 upon the power mode (SLEEP, STANDBY, or IDLE).
958 [PW] Added Maxtor DiamondMax 20 VL series, Fujitsu MPF series,
959 Maxtor DiamondMax 36 series, Maxtor DiamondMax 4320 series, and
960 Maxtor DiamondMax 536DX series to knowndrives table.
962 [BA] many warning messages now give the file name AND VERSION
964 [BA] smartd: when the user provides multiple address recipients
965 to the '-m' Directive in a comma-delineated list, the commas
966 are stripped out before passing the list of addresses to the
967 mailer program. (Thanks to Calin A. Culianu for pointing this out
968 and providing a patch.)
970 [BA] smartd: when the '-M exec path' Directive is used, any stdout OR
971 stderr output from the executable "path" is assumed to indicate a
972 problem, and is echoed to SYSLOG.
974 [BA] Added all missing IBM/Hitachi Deskstar 180GXP models to knowndrives
977 [PW] Added some missing IBM/Hitachi Deskstar 120GXP models to knowndrives
980 [PW] Added IBM Travelstar 14GS to knowndrives table.
982 [PW] Modified knowndrives table to match entire Hitachi Travelstar
983 DK23BA and DK23EA series of drives (thanks to Norikatsu Shigemura
984 for submitting the patch).
986 [PW] Added some missing Fujitsu MPE series drives to knowndrives table.
988 [PW] Added TOSHIBA MK4019GAX, TOSHIBA MK6409MAV, and QUANTUM
989 FIREBALLlct15 20 to knowndrives table.
991 [EM] Fixup example command output for FreeBSD
993 [PW] Added Maxtor DiamondMax 80 family to knowndrives table.
995 [EM] Catch up FreeBSD code to switch PROJECTHOME to PACKAGE_HOMEPAGE
998 [BA] smartd: now watches stdout/stderr when trying to run mail, mailx
999 or mail warning script, and reports any output to SYSLOG. This
1000 gives a clearer error message if something is wrong.
1002 [BA] smartd: Solaris init script modified to accomodate grep that
1003 lacks '-q' quiet option. Also check for running process to kill
1006 [PW] Added some missing Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 and 7200.7 Plus drives
1007 to knowndrives table.
1009 [PW] Added Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 60 family and Seagate U Series 5 20413
1010 to knowndrives table.
1012 [BA] smartd: under Solaris, made default mailer be 'mailx' not
1013 'mail', since Solaris 'mail' does not accept a '-s' argument.
1014 A workaround for Solaris users of earlier versions is to
1015 have '-M exec /bin/mailx' in their smartd.conf config file.
1017 [DG] some SCSI controllers don't like odd length transfers so make
1018 sure LOG SENSE transfers are rounded up to an even number when
1019 and odd length is reported (i.e. there is a double fetch, the
1020 first to find the length, the second gets the data)
1022 [BA] smartd man pages: under Solaris, correct section numbers in the
1025 [KS/BA] smartd man page: describe how to set Solaris syslog.conf
1026 file to catch all messages. Give correct Solaris SYSLOG default
1027 path /var/adm/messages in man pages.
1029 [BA] smartd: incorporated Debian startup script submitted by user.
1031 [BA] smartctl: modified printing of self-test log entry number. Seagate
1032 firmware can leave 'holes' in the self-test log while a test is
1033 actually running. We now print entry numbers consistently in this
1034 case, not assuming that entries are contiguous.
1036 [PW] Added QUANTUM FIREBALL CX10.2A and Western Digital Caviar AC23200L
1037 to knowndrives table.
1039 [PW] Added QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 20 to knowndrives table.
1041 [PW] Added Maxtor DiamondMax Plus D740X family to knowndrives table.
1043 [PW] Added IBM Travelstar 32GH, 30GT, and 20GN family to knowndrives
1046 [BA] Slackware init script modified to search for /etc/slackware-version
1047 rather than /etc/slackware-release.
1049 [PW] Added Seagate Barracuda ATA II family and TOSHIBA MK4019GAXB to
1052 [GG] explain howto use autoreconf in autogen.sh
1054 [KS] Makefile.am/configure.in: changed manual page sections for
1057 [BA] smartd: reduced number of scheduled self-test messages if
1058 test already run in current hour.
1060 [PW] Added Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 family to knowndrives table.
1062 [BA] linux: check for linux/hdreg.h. If it's there, use it. If
1063 not, provide the necessary definitions ourselves.
1065 [PW] Removed warning for IBM Deskstar 40GV & 75GXP series drives
1066 with TXAOA5AA firmware
1068 [PW] Added IBM Travelstar 25GS, 18GT, and 12GN family to knowndrives
1071 [PW] Added IBM/Hitachi Travelstar 60GH & 40GN family to knowndrives
1074 [BA] smartd: made '-s' Directive more efficient. Now store
1075 compiled regex, and re-use. If device lacks certain self-test
1076 capabilities, track it and don't try again.
1078 [BA] smartd: made memory allocation for device lists completely
1079 dynamic (eliminating compile-time maximum length constants).
1081 [PW] Removed warning for SAMSUNG SP0802N with TK100-23 firmware
1083 [PW] Added Seagate Barracuda ATA IV family to knowndrives table.
1085 [BA] smartd: reduce per-device memory footprint by making
1086 mail-warning info dynamically allocated. Also remove
1087 potential memory leak if use has -m Directive twice and
1088 keeps reloading the config file (highly unlikely this would
1091 [DG] smartd: added SCSI scheduled self-tests (Background
1094 [BA] smartd: can now run scheduled offline immediate and
1095 self-tests. See man page and -s Directive for details.
1097 [GG] don't include manpages in make-dist-tarball.
1099 [BA] smartctl: on-line examples given with -h are now correct
1100 for solaris and linux, but wrong for freebsd. Ed?
1102 [BA] smartd: man page now explains device scanning for solaris as
1103 well as linux and freebsd.
1105 [BA] smartd/smartctl: man pages now report correct CVS tag release
1106 date, and executables '-V' options reports more build info.
1110 [BA] Improved user messages that appear from 'make install'
1112 [PW] Removed warning for SAMSUNG SP1213N with firmware TL100-23
1114 [BA] incorporated SuSE init script from user.
1116 [DG] if SCSI device is read only, then open it read only.
1118 [BA] when compiled on non-supported system (NOT linux, freebsd or solaris) then
1119 the run-time error messages now clearly say 'your system is not supported'
1120 and give clear directions.
1122 [BA] ./configure script now works correctly on SuSE linux boxes
1124 [BA] minor improvements to man pages
1126 [BA] simplified detection of packet (ATAPI, CD) devices.
1128 [BA] init script (redhat, mandrake, yellowdog) now uses correct
1129 strings for translation and is slightly more standard.
1131 [DG] smartctl: output scsi Seagate vendor pages for disks (not tapes)
1135 Note: there was no '5.24' release. From this point on, even numbered
1136 releases will be 'stable' ones and odd numbered releases will be
1137 unstable/testing/development ones.
1139 [DG] smartd/smartctl: changed scsiClearControlGLTSD() to
1140 scsiSetControlGLTSD() with an 'enabled' argument so '-S on'
1141 and '-S off' work for SCSI devices (if changing GLTSD supported).
1143 [BA] smartd/smartctl: wired in scsiClearControlGLTSD(). Could still
1144 use a corresponding Set function. Left stubs for this purpose.
1146 [DG] scsicmds: added scsiClearControlGLTSD() [still to be wired in]
1148 [BA] smartctl: make SCSI -T options behave the same way as the
1151 [DG] smartctl: output scsi transport protocol if available
1153 [DG] scsi: stop device scan in smartd and smartctl if badly formed
1154 mode response [heuristic to filter out USB devices before we
1155 (potentially) lock them up].
1157 [BA] smartd: deviceclose()->CloseDevice(). Got rid of SCSIDEVELOPMENT
1158 macro-enabled code. Added -W to list of gcc specific options to
1159 always enable. Made code clean for -W warnings.
1161 [PW] Added Maxtor DiamondMax VL 30 family to knowndrives table.
1163 [DG] scsi: add warning (when '-l error' active) if Control mode page
1164 GLTSD bit is set (global disable of saving log counters)
1166 [DG] scsi: remember mode sense cmd length. Output trip temperature
1167 from IE lpage (IBM extension) when unavailable from temp lpage.
1169 [BA] smartd: for both SCSI and ATA now warns user if either
1170 the number of self-test errors OR timestamp of most
1171 recent self-test error have increased.
1173 [DG] smartctl: output Seagate scsi Cache and Factory log pages (if
1174 available) when vendor attributes chosen
1176 [DG] smartd: add scsiCountFailedSelfTests() function.
1178 [DG] Do more sanity checking of scsi log page responses.
1180 [BA] smartd: now warns user if number of self-test errors has
1181 increased for SCSI devices.
1183 [BA] smartd: warn user if number of ATA self-test errors increases
1184 (as before) OR if hour time stamp of most recent self-test
1187 [DG] More checks for well formed mode page responses. This has the side
1188 effect of stopping scans on bad SCSI implementations (e.g. some
1189 USB disks) prior to sending commands (typically log sense) that
1192 [PW] Added Western Digital Caviar family and Caviar SE family to
1195 [BA] smartd: added -l daemon (which is the default value if -l
1198 [PW] Added Seagate Barracuda ATA V family to knowndrives table.
1200 [BA] smartd: added additional command line argument -l FACILITY
1201 or --logfacility FACILITY. This can be used to redirect
1202 messages from smartd to a different file than the one used
1203 by other system daemons.
1205 [PW] Added Seagate Barracuda 7200.7, Western Digital Protege WD400EB,
1206 and Western Digital Caviar AC38400 to knowndrives table.
1208 [BA] smartd: scanning should now also work correctly for
1209 devfs WITHOUT traditional links /dev/hd[a-t] or /dev/sd[a-z].
1211 [PW] Added Maxtor 4W040H3, Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Plus,
1212 IBM Deskstar 120GXP (40GB), Seagate U Series 20410,
1213 Fujitsu MHM2100AT, MHL2300AT, MHM2150AT, and IBM-DARA-212000
1214 to knowndrives table.
1216 [PW] Added remaining Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 models to knowndrives
1219 [EM] smartd: If no matches found, then return 0, rather than an error
1220 indication, as it just means no devices of the given type exist.
1221 Adjust FreeBSD scan code to mirror Linux version.
1223 [BA] smartd: made device scan code simpler and more robust. If
1224 too many devices detected, warn user but scan as many
1225 as possible. If error in scanning, warn user but don't
1228 [EM] smartd: To keep as consistent as possible, migrate FreeBSD
1229 devicescan code to also use glob(3). Also verified clean
1230 compile on a 4.7 FreeBSD system.
1232 [BA] smartd: Modified device scan code to use glob(3). Previously
1233 it appeared to have trouble when scanning devices on an XFS
1234 file system, and used non-public interface to directory
1235 entries. Problems were also reported when /dev/ was on an
1236 ext2/3 file system, but there was a JFS partition on the same
1239 [BA] Clearer error messages when device scanning finds no suitable
1242 [EM] FreeBSD: Fixup code to allow for proper compilation under
1247 [BA] smartd: didn't close file descriptors of ATA packet devices
1248 that are scanned. Fixed.
1250 [BA] Added reload/report targets to the smartmontools init script.
1251 reload: reloads config file
1252 report: send SIGUSR1 to check devices now
1256 [EM] Fix compile issues for FreeBSD < 5-CURRENT.
1258 [PW] Added Fujitsu MHM2200AT to knowndrives table.
1260 [BA] To help catch bugs, clear ATA error structures before all
1261 ioctl calls. Disable code that attempted to time-out on SCSI
1262 devices when they hung (doesn't work).
1264 [BA] Documented STATUS/ERROR flags added by [PW] below.
1266 [BA] Improved algorithm to recognize ATA packet devices. Should
1267 no longer generate SYSLOG kernel noise when user tries either
1268 smartd or smartctl on packet device (CD-ROM or DVD). Clearer
1269 warning messages from smartd when scanning ATA packet device.
1271 [PW] Added TOSHIBA MK4025GAS to knowndrives table.
1273 [PW] Added a textual interpretation of the status and error registers
1274 in the SMART error log (ATA). The interpretation is
1275 command-dependent and currently only eight commands are supported
1276 (those which produced errors in the error logs that I happen to
1279 [BA] added memory allocation tracking to solaris code.
1280 Fixed solaris signal handling (reset handler to default
1281 after first call to handler) by using sigset. Added
1282 HAVE_SIGSET to configure.in
1284 [CD] solaris port: added SCSI functionality to solaris
1287 [BA] smartd: attempt to address bug report about smartd
1288 hanging on USB devices when scanning:
1289 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107615
1290 Set a timeout of SCSITIMEOUT (nominally 7 seconds) before
1293 [EM] smartd: DEVICESCAN will follow links in a devfs filesystem and
1294 make sure the end point is a disc. Update documentation, added
1295 note about FreeBSD scanning
1297 [BA] smartd: DEVICESCAN also looks for block devices in
1298 /dev. Updated documentation. Now scans for up to
1299 20 ATA devices /dev/hda-t rather than previous 12
1302 [EM] smartd: mirror the FreeBSD DEVICESCAN logic for Linux,
1303 so that smartd now scans only devices found in /dev/. Also,
1304 make utility memory functions take a line number and file so
1305 that we report errors with the correct location.
1307 [GG] add a note about Debian bug #208964 to WARNINGS.
1309 [BA] smartctl: -T verypermissive option broken. Use
1310 -T verpermissive until the next release, please.
1312 [BA] Syntax mods so that code also compiles on Solaris using
1313 Sun Workshop compiler. Need -xmemalign 1i -xCC flags
1318 [DK] Changed configure.in so -Wall is only included if gcc
1319 is used (this is a gcc specific flag) and -fsignedchar
1320 is not used at all (this is a gcc specific compiler
1323 [BA] Modifications so that code now compiles under solaris. Now
1324 all that's needed (:-) is to fill in os_solaris.[hc]. Added
1325 os_generic.[hc] as guide to future ports. Fixed -D option
1326 of smartd (no file name). Modified -h opt of smartd/smartctl
1327 to work properly with solaris getopt().
1329 [EM] Update MAN pages with notes that 3ware drives are NOT supported
1330 under FreeBSD. Cleanup FreeBSD warning message handling.
1332 [EM] FreeBSD only: Fix first user found bug....I guess I was making
1333 the wrong assumption on how to convert ATA devnames to
1334 channel/unit numbers.
1336 [EM] Allow for option --enable-sample to append '.sample' to installed
1337 smartd.conf and rc script files. Also, let rc script shell setting
1338 be determined by configure
1340 [EM] Minor autoconf update to include -lcam for FreeBSD
1342 [EM] Add conditional logic to allow FreeBSD to compile pre-ATAng.
1344 Add some documentation to INSTALL for FreeBSD.
1346 [EM] Implement SCSI CAM support for FreeBSD. NOTE: I am not an expert
1347 in the use of CAM. It seems to work for me, but I may be doing
1348 something horribly wrong, so please exercise caution.
1350 [EM] Switch over to using 'atexit' rather than 'on_exit' routine. This also
1351 meant we needed to save the exit status elsewhere so our 'Goodbye'
1352 routine could examine it.
1354 [EM] Move the DEVICESCAN code to os specific files. Also moved some of the
1355 smartd Memory functions to utility.c to make available to smartctl.
1357 [EM] Code janitor work on os_freebsd.c.
1359 [EM] Added os_freebsd.[hc] code. Additional code janitor
1362 [BA] Code janitor working, moving OS dependent code into
1365 [GG] conditionally compile os_{freebsd,linux}.o depending on
1368 [PW] Print estimated completion time for tests
1370 [BA] Added -F samsung2 flag to correct firmware byte swap.
1371 All samsung drives with *-23 firmware revision string.
1375 [GG] Fixed broken Makefile.am (zero length smartd.conf.5
1376 was being created), fix broken uninstall/distcheck targets
1378 [FM] Improved Slackware init script added to /etc/smartd.initd
1380 smartmontools 5.19 [NOTE CHANGE OF RELEASE NUMBERING]
1382 [BA] smartctl: added '-T verypermissive' option which is
1383 equivalent to giving '-T permissive' many times.
1385 [BA] Try harder to identify from IDENTIFY DEVICE structure
1386 if SMART supported/enabled. smartd now does a more
1387 thorough job of trying to assess this before sending
1388 a SMART status command to find out for sure.
1390 [BA] smartctl: it's now possible to override the program's
1391 guess of the device type (ATA or SCSI) with -d option.
1393 [BA] try hard to avoid sending IDENTIFY DEVICE to packet
1394 devices (CDROMS). They can't do SMART, and this generates
1395 annoying syslog messages. At the same time, identify type
1398 [BA] smartctl: Can now use permissive option more
1399 than once, to control how far to go before giving up.
1401 [BA] smartd: if user asked to monitor either error or self-test
1402 logs (-l error or -l selftest) WITHOUT monitoring any of the
1403 Attribute values, code will SEGV. For 5.1-18 and earlier,
1404 a good workaround is to enable Auto offline (-o on).
1406 [BA] smartctl: If enable auto offline command given, update auto
1407 offline status before printing capabilities.
1409 [GG] Make autotools build the default, remove autotools.diff
1411 [GG] Add auto{conf,make} support, not enabled by default.
1413 [BA] Eliminated #include <linux/hdreg.h> from code. This
1414 should simplify porting to solaris, FreeBSD, etc. The
1415 only linux-specific code is now isolated to three routines,
1416 one for SCSI, one for Escalade, one for ATA.
1418 smartmontools 5.1-18
1420 [BA] smartd: fixed serious bug - Attributes not monitored unless
1421 user told smartd to ignore at least one of them!
1423 smartmontools 5.1-17
1425 [BA] Default runlevels for smartd changed from 3 and 5 to
1428 [BA] Removed as much dynamic memory allocation as possible from
1429 configuration file parsing. Reloading config file, even in
1430 presence of syntax errors etc. should not cause memory leaks.
1432 [PW] It is no longer permissible for the integer part (if any) of
1433 arguments to --report and --device to be followed by non-digits.
1434 For example, the "foo" in --report=ioctl,2foo was previously
1435 ignored, but now causes an error.
1437 [BA] smartd: added -q/--quit command line option to specify
1438 under what circumstances smartd should exit. The old
1439 -c/--checkonce option is now obsoleted by this more
1440 general-purpose option.
1442 [BA] smartd now responds to a HUP signal by re-reading its
1443 configuration file /etc/smartd.conf. If there are
1444 errors in this file, then the configuration file is
1445 ignored and smartd continues to monitor the devices that
1446 it was monitoring prior to receiving the HUP signal.
1448 [BA] Now correctly get SMART status from disks behind 3ware
1449 controllers, thanks to Adam Radford. Need 3w-xxxx driver
1450 version 1.02.00.037 or later. Previously the smartmontools
1451 SMART status always returned "OK" for 3ware controllers.
1453 [BA] Additional work on dynamic memory allocation/deallocation.
1454 This should have no effect on smartctl, but clears that way
1455 for smartd to dynamically add and remove entries. It should
1456 also now be easier to modify smartd to re-read its config
1457 file on HUP (which is easy) without leaking memory (which is
1458 harder). The philosophy is that memory for data structures in
1459 smartd is now allocated only on demand, the first time it
1462 [BA] smartd: finished cleanup. Now use create/rm functions for
1463 cfgentries and dynamic memory allocation almost everywhere.
1464 Philosophy: aggresively try and provoke SEGV to help find
1467 [BA] Added SAMSUNG SV0412H to knowndrives table.
1469 [BA] smartd: if DEVICESCAN used then knowndrives table might not set
1470 the -v attributes correctly -- may have been the same for all
1471 the drives. Cleaned up some data structures and memory
1472 allocation to try and ensure segvs if such problems are
1475 [BA] Now allow -S on and -o on for the 3ware device type. For these
1476 commands to be passed through, the stock 3ware 3w-xxxx driver
1477 must be patched (8 lines). I'll post a patch on the smartmontools
1478 home page after it's been tested by a few other people and 3ware
1479 have had a chance to look it over.
1481 smartmontools-5.1-16
1483 [BA] smartd - can now monitor ATA drives behind 3ware controllers.
1485 [BA] smartd - changed some FATAL out of memory error messages from
1486 syslog level LOG_INFO to LOG_CRIT.
1488 [BA] smartctl - added code to look at ATA drives behind 3ware RAID
1489 controllers using the 3w-xxxx driver. Note that for technical
1490 reasons related to the 3w-xxxx driver, the "Enable Autosave",
1491 "Enable Automatic Offline" commands are not implemented.
1492 I will add this to smartd shortly.
1494 [BA] smartd - modified sleep loop, so that smartd no longer comes
1495 on the run queue every second. Instead, unless interrupted,
1496 it sleeps until the next polling time, when it wakes up. Now
1497 smartd also tries to wake up at exactly the right
1498 intervals (nominally 30 min) even if the user has been sending
1501 [GG] add Fujitsu MHN2300AT to vendoropts_9_seconds.
1503 [EB] Fujitsu change in knowndrives ... match the whole MPD and
1504 MPE series for vendoropts_9_seconds.
1506 [BA] smartd bug, might cause segv if a device can not be opened. Was
1507 due to missing comma in char* list. Consequence is that email
1508 failure messages might have had the wrong Subject: heading for
1509 errorcount, FAILEDhealthcheck, FAILEDreadsmartdata, FAILEDreadsmarterrorlog,
1510 FAILEDreadsmartsefltestlog, FAILEDopendevice were all displaced by
1511 one. And FAILEDopendevice might have caused a segv if -m was being
1512 used as a smartd Directive.
1514 smartmontools-5.1-15
1516 [BA] Cleaned up smartmontools.spec so that upgrading, removing
1517 and other such operations correctly preserve running behavior
1518 and booting behavior of smartd.
1520 [BA] Improved formatting of ATA Error Log printout, and added
1521 listing of names of commands that caused the error. Added
1522 obsolete ATA-4 SMART feature commands to table, along with
1523 obsolete SFF-8035i SMART feature command.
1525 [PW] Added atacmdnames.[hc], which turn command register &
1526 feature register pairs into ATA command names.
1528 [BA] Added conveyance self-test. Some code added for selective
1529 self-tests, but #ifdefed out.
1531 [BA] Modified smartd exit status and log levels. If smartd is
1532 "cleanly" terminated, for example with SIGTERM, then its
1533 exit messages are now logged at LOG_INFO not LOG_CRIT
1535 [BA] Added Attribute IDs (Fujitsu) 0xCA - 0xCE. This is decimal
1536 202-206. Added -v switches for interpretation of Attributes
1539 [BA] Made smartmontools work with any endian order machine for:
1540 - SMART selftest log
1541 - SMART ATA error log
1542 - SMART Attributes values
1543 - SMART Attributes thesholds
1544 - IDENTIFY DEVICE information
1546 Smartmontools is now free of endian bias and works correctly
1547 on both little- and big-endian hardware. This has been tested by
1548 three independent PPC users on a variety of ATA and SCSI hardware.
1550 [DG] Check that certain SCSI command responses are well formed. If
1551 IEC mode page response is not well formed exit smartctl. This
1552 is to protect aacraid. smartd should ignore a aacraid device.
1554 smartmontools-5.1-14
1556 [BA] smartctl: added column to -A output to show if Attributes are
1557 updated only during off-line testing or also during normal
1560 smartmontools-5.1-13
1562 [BA] smartd: attempt to enable/disable automatic offline testing even
1563 if the disk appears not to support it. Now the same logic
1566 [BA] Added definition of Attribute 201, soft read error rate.
1568 [BA] Added IBM/Hitachi IC35L120AVV207-1 (GXP-180) and corresponding
1569 8MB Cache GXP-120 to drive database.
1571 [BA] smartd: if DEVICESCAN Directive used in smartd.conf, and
1572 -I, -R or -r Directives used in conjunction with this, got
1573 segv errors. Fixed by correcting memory allocation calls.
1575 [BA] smartd: enable automatic offline testing was broken due
1576 to cut-and-paste error that disabled it instead of
1577 enabling it. Thanks to Maciej W. Rozycki for pointing
1578 out the problem and solution.
1580 [BA] Fixed "spelling" of some Attribute names to replace spaces
1581 in names by underscores. (Fixed field width easier for awk
1584 [BA,GF] Added mods submitted by [GF] to support Attribute 193 being
1585 load/unload cycles. Add -v 193,loadunload option, useful for
1586 Hitachi drive DK23EA-30, and add this drive to knowndrive.c
1587 Add meaning of attribute 250 : Read error retry rate
1589 smartmontools-5.1-12
1591 [BA] Added another entry for Samsung drives to knowndrive table.
1593 [DG] Refine SCSI log sense command to do a double fetch in most cases
1594 (but not for the TapeAlert log page). Fix TapeAlert and Self Test
1595 log page response truncation.
1597 [PW] Added 'removable' argument to -d Directive for smartd. This indicates
1598 that smartd should continue (rather than exit) if the device does not
1599 appear to be present.
1601 [BA] Modified smartmontools.spec [Man pages location] and
1602 smartd.initd [Extra space kills chkconfig!] for Redhat 6.x
1603 compatibility (thanks to Gerald Schnabel).
1605 smartmontools-5.1-11
1607 [EB] Add another Fujitsu disk to knowndrives.c
1609 [GG] match for scsi/ and ide/ in case of devfs to exclude false postives
1611 [BA] If SCSI device listed in /etc/smartd.conf fails to open or do
1612 SMART stuff correctly, or not enough space
1613 to list all SCSI devices, fail with error unless
1614 -DSCSIDEVELOPMENT set during compile-time.
1616 [BA] Added automatic recognition of /dev/i* (example: /dev/ide/...)
1619 [DG] Add "Device type: [disk | tape | medium changer | ...] line to
1620 smartctl -i output for SCSI devices.
1622 [PW] Fixed bug in smartd where test email would be sent regularly (for
1623 example, daily if the user had specified -M daily) instead of just
1626 [KM] More TapeAlert work. Added translations for media changer
1627 alerts. TapeAlert support reported according to the log page
1628 presence. ModeSense not attempted for non-ready tapes (all
1629 drives do not support this after all). Get peripheral type from
1630 Inquiry even if drive info is not printed. Add QUIETON()
1631 QUIETOFF() to TapeAlert log check.
1633 [BA] Stupid bug in atacmds.c minor_str[] affected ataVersionInfo().
1634 Two missing commas meant that minor_str[] had two few elements,
1635 leading to output like this:
1636 Device Model: Maxtor 6Y120L0
1637 Serial Number: Y40BF74E
1638 Firmware Version: YAR41VW0
1639 Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
1641 ATA Standard is: 9,minutes
1643 Missing commas inserted.
1645 [BA] Fixed smartd bug. On device registration, if ATA device did
1646 not support SMART error or self-test logs but user had asked to
1647 monitor them, an attempt would be made to read them anyway,
1648 possibly generating "Drive Seek" errors. We now check that
1649 the self-test and error logs are supported before trying to
1650 access them the first time.
1652 [GG/BA] Fixed bug where if SMART ATA error log not supported,
1653 command was tried anyway. Changed some error printing to use
1656 [GG] Makefile modifications to ease packaging
1658 [DG] Did work for TapeAlerts (SCSI). Now can detect /dev/nst0 as a
1659 SCSI device. Also open SCSI devices O_NONBLOCK so they don't
1660 hang on open awaiting media. The ATA side should worry about
1661 this also: during a DEVICESCAN a cd/dvd device without media
1662 will hang. Added some TapeAlert code suggested by Kai Makisara.
1664 smartmontools-5.1-10
1666 [PW] Extended the -F option/Directive to potentially fix other firmware
1667 bugs in addition to the Samsung byte-order bug. Long option name is
1668 now --firmwarebug and the option/Directive accepts an argument
1669 indicating the type of firmware bug to fix.
1671 [BA] Fixed a bug that prevented the enable automatic off-line
1672 test feature from enabling. It also prevented the enable Attribute
1673 autosave from working. See CVS entry for additional details.
1675 [PW] Modified the -r/--report option (smartctl and smartd) to allow the
1676 user to specify the debug level as a positive integer.
1678 [BA] Added --log directory option to smartctl. If the disk
1679 supports the general-purpose logging feature set (ATA-6/7)
1680 then this option enables the Log Directory to be printed.
1681 This Log Directory shows which device logs are available, and
1682 their lengths in sectors.
1684 [PW] Added -P/--presets option to smartctl and -P Directive to smartd.
1686 [GG] Introduce different exit codes indicating the type of problem
1687 encountered for smartd.
1689 [DG] Add non-medium error count to '-l error' and extended self test
1690 duration to '-l selftest'. Get scsi IEs and temperature changes
1691 working in smartd. Step over various scsi disk problems rather
1692 than abort smartd startup.
1694 [DG] Support -l error for SCSI disks (and tapes). Output error counter
1697 [BA] Added -F/--fixbyteorder option to smartctl. This allows us to read
1698 SMART data from some disks that have byte-reversed two- and four-
1699 byte quantities in their SMART data structures.
1701 [BA] Fixed serious bug: the -v options in smartd.conf were all put
1702 together and used together, not drive-by-drive.
1704 [PW] Added knowndrives.h and knowndrives.c. The knowndrives array
1705 supersedes the drivewarnings array.
1707 [GG] add {-p,--pidfile} option to smartd to write a PID file on
1708 startup. Update the manpage accordingly.
1710 [DG] Fix scsi smartd problem detecting SMART support. More cleaning
1711 and fix (and rename) scsiTestUnitReady(). More scsi renaming.
1713 [BA] Fixed smartd so that if a disk that is explictily listed is not
1714 found, then smartd will exit with nonzero status BEFORE forking.
1715 If a disk can't be registered, this will also be detected before
1716 forking, so that init scripts can react correctly.
1718 [BA] Replaced all linux-specific ioctl() calls in atacmds.c with
1719 a generic handler smartcommandhandler(). Now the only routine
1720 that needs to be implemented for a given OS is os_specific_handler().
1721 Also implemented the --report ataioctl. This provides
1722 two levels of reporting. Using the option once gives a summary
1723 report of device IOCTL transactions. Using the option twice give
1724 additional info (a printout of ALL device raw 512 byte SMART
1725 data structures). This is useful for debugging.
1727 [DG] more scsi cleanup. Output scsi device serial number (VPD page
1728 0x80) if available as part of '-i'. Implement '-t offline' as
1729 default self test (only self test older disks support).
1731 [BA] Changed crit to info in loglevel of smartd complaint to syslog
1732 if DEVICESCAN enabled and device not found.
1734 [BA] Added -v 194,10xCelsius option/Directive. Raw Attribute number
1735 194 is ten times the disk temperature in Celsius.
1737 [DG] scsicmds.[hc] + scsiprint.c: clean up indentation, remove tabs.
1738 Introduce new intermediate interface based on "struct scsi_cmnd_io"
1739 to isolate SCSI generic commands + responses from Linux details;
1740 should help port to FreeBSD of SCSI part of smartmontools.
1741 Make SCSI command builders more parametric.
1745 [BA] smartctl: if HDIO_DRIVE_TASK ioctl() is not implemented (no
1746 kernel support, then try to assess drive health by examining
1747 Attribute values/thresholds directly.
1749 [BA] smartd/smartctl: added -v 200,writeerrorcount option/Directive
1752 [BA] smartd: Now send email if any of the SMART commands fails,
1753 or if open()ing the device fails. This is often noted
1754 as a common disk failure mode.
1756 [BA] smartd/smartctl: Added -v N,raw8 -v N,raw16 and -v N,raw48
1757 Directives/Options for printing Raw Attributes in different
1760 [BA] smartd: Added -r ID and -R ID for reporting/tracking Raw
1761 values of Attributes.
1763 [BA] smartd/smartctl: Changed printing of spin-up-time attribute
1764 raw value to reflect current/average as per IBM standard.
1766 [BA] smartd/smartctl: Added -v 9,seconds option for disks which
1767 use Attribute 9 for power-on lifetime in seconds.
1769 [BA] smartctl: Added a warning message so that users of some IBM
1770 disks are warned to update their firmware. Note: we may want
1771 to add a command-line flag to disable the warning messages.
1772 I have done this in a general way, using regexp, so that we
1773 can add warnings about any type of disk that we wish...
1777 [BA] smartd: Created a subdirectory examplescripts/ of source
1778 directory that contains executable scripts for the -M exec PATH
1779 Directive of smartd.
1783 [BA] smartd: DEVICESCAN in /etc/smartd.conf
1784 can now be followed by all the same Directives as a regular
1785 device name like /dev/hda takes. This allows one to use
1787 DEVICESCAN -m root@example.com
1788 in the /etc/smartd.conf file.
1790 [BA] smartd: Added -c (--checkonce) command-line option. This checks
1791 all devices once, then exits. The exit status can be
1792 used to learn if devices were detected, and if smartd is
1793 functioning correctly. This is primarily for Distribution
1796 [BA] smartd: Implemented -M exec Directive for
1797 smartd.conf. This makes it possible to run an
1798 arbitrary script or mailing program with the
1801 [PW] smartd: Modified -M Directive so that it can be given
1802 multiple times. Added -M exec Directive.
1806 [BA] Fixed bug in smartctl pointed out by Pierre Gentile.
1807 -d scsi didn't work because tryata and tryscsi were
1808 reversed -- now works on /devfs SCSI devices.
1810 [BA] Fixed bug in smartctl pointed out by Gregory Goddard
1811 <ggoddard@ufl.edu>. Manual says that bit 6 of return
1812 value turned on if errors found in smart error log. But
1813 this wasn't implemented.
1817 [BA] Modified printing format for 9,minutes to read
1818 Xh+Ym not X h + Y m, so that fields are fixed width.
1820 [BA] Added Attribute 240 "head flying hours"
1824 [BA] As requested, local time/date now printed by smartctl -i
1826 [PW] Added "help" argument to -v for smartctl
1828 [PW] Added -D, --showdirectives option to smartd
1830 [DG] add '-l selftest' capability for SCSI devices (update smartctl.8)
1832 [BA] smartd,smartctl: added additional Attribute modification option
1833 -v 220,temp and -v 9,temp.
1835 [PW] Renamed smartd option -X to -d
1837 START OF SMARTMONTOOLS 5.1 series
1839 smartmontools-5.0.50
1841 [PW] Changed smartd.conf Directives -- see man page
1843 [BA/DG] Fixed uncommented comment in smartd.conf
1845 [DG] Correct 'Recommended start stop count' for SCSI devices
1847 [PW] Replaced smartd.conf directive -C with smartd option -i
1849 [PW] Changed options for smartctl -- see man page.
1851 [BA] Use strerror() to generate system call error messages.
1853 [BA] smartd: fflush() all open streams before fork().
1855 [BA] smartctl, smartd simplified internal handling of checksums
1856 for simpler porting and less code.
1858 smartmontools-5.0.49
1860 [PW] smartd --debugmode changed to --debug
1862 [BA] smartd/smartctl added attribute 230 Head Amplitude from
1865 [PW] Added list of proposed new options for smartctl to README.
1867 [PW] smartd: ParseOpts() now uses getopt_long() if HAVE_GETOPT_LONG is
1868 defined and uses getopt() otherwise. This is controlled by CPPFLAGS in
1871 [BA] smartd: Fixed a couple of error messages done with perror()
1872 to redirect them as needed.
1874 smartmontools-5.0.48
1876 [BA] smartctl: The -O option to enable an Immediate off-line test
1877 did not print out the correct time that the test would take to
1878 complete. This is because the test timer is volatile and not
1879 fixed. This has been fixed, and the smartctl.8 man page has been
1880 updated to explain how to track the Immediate offline test as it
1881 progresses, and to further emphasize the differences between the
1882 off-line immediate test and the self-tests.
1884 [BA] smartd/smartctl: Added new attribute (200) Multi_Zone_Error_Rate
1886 [BA] smartctl: modified so that arguments could have either a single -
1887 as in -ea or multiple ones as in -e -a. Improved warning message for
1888 device not opened, and fixed error in redirection of error output of
1889 HD identity command.
1891 [PW] smartd: added support for long options. All short options are still
1892 supported; see manpage for available long options.
1894 [BA] smartctl. When raw Attribute value was 2^31 or larger, did
1895 not print correctly.
1897 smartmontools-5.0.46
1899 [BA] smartd: added smartd.conf Directives -T and -s. The -T Directive
1900 enables/disables Automatic Offline Testing. The -s Directive
1901 enables/disables Attribute Autosave. Documentation and
1902 example configuration file updated to agree.
1904 [BA] smartd: user can make smartd check the disks at any time
1905 (ie, interrupt sleep) by sending signal SIGUSR1 to smartd. This
1906 can be done for example with:
1908 where <pid> is the process ID number of smartd.
1910 [EB] scsi: don't trust the data we receive from the drive too
1911 much. It very well might have errors (like zero response length).
1912 Seen on Megaraid logical drive, and verified in the driver source.
1914 [BA] smartd: added Directive -m for sending test email and
1915 for modifying email reminder behavior. Updated manual, and sample
1916 configuration file to illustrate & explain this.
1918 [BA] smartd: increased size of a continued smartd.conf line to
1921 [BA] Simplified Directive parsers and improved warning/error
1924 smartmontools-5.0.45
1926 [EB] Fixed bug in smartd where testunitready logic inverted
1927 prevented functioning on scsi devices.
1928 The bug in question only affects smartd users with scsi devices.
1929 To see if your version of smartd has the testunitready() bug, do
1931 If the version of the module smartd.c in a line like:
1932 Module: smartd.c revision: 1.66 date: 2002/11/17
1933 has a revision greater than or equal to 1.30, and less than or equal to
1934 1.64, then your version of the code has this problem.
1935 This problem affected releases starting with RELEASE_5_0_16 up to and
1936 including RELEASE_5_0_43.
1938 [BA] Added testunitnotready to smartctl for symmetry with smartd.
1940 [SB] added Czech descriptions to .spec file
1941 [SB] corrected comment in smartd.conf example
1943 [BA] Changed way that entries in the ATA error log are printed,
1944 to make it clearer which is the most recent error and
1945 which is the oldest one.
1947 NOTE: All changes made prior to this point were done by Bruce Allen
1948 [BA] although several of them had been suggested by earlier postings
1949 by Stanislav Brabec [SB].
1951 smartmontools-5.0.43
1953 Changed Temperature_Centigrade to Temperature_Celsius.
1954 The term "Centigrade" ceased to exist in 1948. (c.f
1955 http://www.bartleby.com/64/C004/016.html).
1957 smartmontools-5.0.42
1959 Modified SCSI device check to also send warning emails if
1960 requested in directives file.
1962 Added a new smartd configuration file Directive: -M ADDRESS.
1963 This sends a single warning email to ADDRESS for failures or
1964 errors detected with the -c, -L, -l, or -f Directives.
1966 smartmontools-5.0.38
1968 Modified perror() statements in atacmds.c so that printout for SMART
1969 commands errors is properly suppressed or queued depending upon users
1970 choices for error reporting modes.
1972 Added Italian descriptions to smartmontools.spec file.
1974 Started impementing send-mail-on-error for smartd; not yet enabled.
1976 Added -P (Permissive) Directive to smartd.conf file to allow SMART
1977 monitoring of pre-ATA-3 Rev 4 disks that have SMART but do not have
1978 a SMART capability bit.
1980 Removed charset encodings from smartmontools.spec file for non-English
1983 smartmontools-5.0.32
1985 Added manual page smartd.conf.5 for configuration file.
1987 smartctl: Missing ANSI prototype in failuretest(); fixed.
1989 smartctl: Checksum warnings now printed on stdout, or are silent,
1990 depending upon -q and -Q settings.
1992 smartmontools-5.0.31
1994 Changed Makefile so that the -V option does not reflect file state
1997 smartctl: added new options -W, -U, and -P to control if and how the
1998 smartctl exits if an error is detected in either a SMART data
1999 structure checksum, or a SMART command returns an error.
2001 modified manual page to break options into slightly more logical
2004 reformatted 'usage' message order to agree with man page ordering
2006 modified .spec file so that locale information now contains
2007 character set definition. Changed pt_BR to pt since we do not use any
2008 aspect other than language. See man setlocale.
2010 smartmontools-5.0.30
2011 smartctl: added new options -n and -N to force device to be ATA or SCSI
2012 smartctl: no longer dies silently if device path does not start/dev/X
2013 smartctl: now handles arbitrary device paths
2015 smartmontools-5.0.29
2016 Modified .spec file and Makefile to make them more compliant with
2017 the "right" way of doing things.
2019 smartmontools-5.0.26
2020 Fixed typesetting error in man page smartd.8
2022 Removed redundant variable (harmless) from smartd.c
2024 smartmontools-5.0.25
2026 Added a new directive for the configuration file. If the word
2027 DEVICESCAN appears before any non-commented material in the
2028 configuration file, then the confi file will be ignored and the
2029 devices wil be scanned.
2031 smartmontools-5.0.24
2033 Note: it has now been confirmed that the code modifications between
2034 5.0.23 and 5.0.24 have eliminated the GCC 3.2 problems. Note that
2035 there is a GCC bug howerver, see #8404 at
2036 http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?database=gcc&cmd=query
2037 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8404
2039 Added new Directive for Configuration file:
2040 -C <N> This sets the time in between disk checks to be <N>
2041 seconds apart. Note that although you can give
2042 this Directive multiple times on different lines of
2043 the configuration file, only the final value that
2044 is given has an effect, and applies to all the
2045 disks. The default value of <N> is 1800 sec, and
2046 the minimum allowed value is ten seconds.
2048 Problem wasn't the print format. F.L.W. Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>
2049 sent me a gcc 3.2 build and I ran it under a debugger. The
2050 problem seems to be with passing the very large (2x512+4) byte
2051 data structures as arguments. I never liked this anyway; it was
2052 inherited from smartsuite. So I've changed all the heavyweight
2053 functions (ATA ones, anyone) to just passing pointers, not hideous
2054 kB size structures on the stack. Hopefully this will now build OK
2055 under gcc 3.2 with any sensible compilation options.
2057 smartmontools-5.0.23
2059 Because of reported problems with GCC 3.2 compile, I have gone
2060 thorough the code and explicitly changed all print format
2061 parameters to correspond EXACTLY to int unless they have to be
2062 promoted to long longs. To quote from the glibc bible: [From
2063 GLIBC Manual: Since the prototype doesn't specify types for
2064 optional arguments, in a call to a variadic function the default
2065 argument promotions are performed on the optional argument
2066 values. This means the objects of type char or short int (whether
2067 signed or not) are promoted to either int or unsigned int, as
2070 smartmontools-5.0.22
2072 smartd, smartctl now warn if they find an attribute whose ID
2073 number does not match between Data and Threshold structures.
2075 Fixed nasty bug which led to wrong number of arguments for a
2076 varargs statement, with attendent stack corruption. Sheesh!
2077 Have added script to CVS attic to help find such nasties in the
2080 smartmontools-5.0.21
2082 Eliminated some global variables out of header files and other
2083 minor cleanup of smartd.
2085 smartmontools-5.0.20
2087 Did some revision of the man page for smartd and made the usage
2088 messages for Directives 100% consistent.
2090 smartmontools-5.0-19
2092 smartd: prints warning message when it gets SIGHUP, saying that it
2093 is NOT re-reading the config file.
2095 smartctl: updated man page to say self-test commands -O,x,X,s,S,A
2096 appear to be supported in the code. [I can't test these, can anyone
2099 smartmontools-5.0-18
2101 smartctl: smartctl would previously print the LBA of a self-test
2102 if it completed, and the LBA was not 0 or 0xff...f However
2103 according to the specs this is not correct. According to the
2104 specs, if the self-test completed without error then LBA is
2105 undefined. This version fixes that. LBA value only printed if
2106 self-test encountered an error.
2108 smartmontools-5.0-17
2110 smartd has changed significantly. This is the first CVS checkin of
2111 code that extends the options available for smartd. The following
2112 options can be placed into the /etc/smartd.conf file, and control the
2114 Configuration file Directives (following device name):
2115 -A Device is an ATA device
2116 -S Device is a SCSI device
2117 -c Monitor SMART Health Status
2118 -l Monitor SMART Error Log for changes
2119 -L Monitor SMART Self-Test Log for new errors
2120 -f Monitor for failure of any 'Usage' Attributes
2121 -p Report changes in 'Prefailure' Attributes
2122 -u Report changes in 'Usage' Attributes
2123 -t Equivalent to -p and -u Directives
2124 -a Equivalent to -c -l -L -f -t Directives
2125 -i ID Ignore Attribute ID for -f Directive
2126 -I ID Ignore Attribute ID for -p, -u or -t Directive
2127 # Comment: text after a hash sign is ignored
2128 \ Line continuation character
2130 cleaned up functions used for printing CVS IDs. Now use string
2131 library, as it should be.
2133 modified length of device name string in smartd internal structure
2134 to accomodate max length device name strings
2136 removed un-implemented (-e = Email notification) option from
2137 command line arg list. We'll put it back on when implemeneted.
2139 smartd now logs serious (fatal) conditions in its operation at
2140 loglevel LOG_CRIT rather than LOG_INFO before exiting with error.
2142 smartd used to open a file descriptor for each SMART enabled
2143 device, and then keep it open the entire time smartd was running.
2144 This meant that some commands, like IOREADBLKPART did not work,
2145 since the fd to the device was open. smartd now opens the device
2146 when it needs to read values, then closes it. Also, if one time
2147 around it can't open the device, it simply prints a warning
2148 message but does not give up. Have eliminated the .fd field from
2149 data structures -- no longer gets used.
2151 smartd now opens SCSI devices as well using O_RDONLY rather than
2152 O_RDWR. If someone can no longer monitor a SCSI device that used
2153 to be readable, this may well be the reason why.
2155 smartd never checked if the number of ata or scsi devices detected
2156 was greater than the max number it could monitor. Now it does.
2158 smartmontools-5.0-16
2160 smartd on startup now looks in the configuration file /etc/smartd.conf for
2161 a list of devices which to include in its monitoring list. See man page
2162 (man smartd) for syntax.
2164 smartd: close file descriptors of SCSI device if not SMART capable
2165 Closes ALL file descriptors after forking to daemon.
2167 added new temperature attribute (231, temperature)
2169 smartd: now open ATA disks using O_RDONLY
2171 smartmontools-5.0-11
2173 smartd now prints the name of a failed or changed attribute
2174 into logfile, not just ID number
2176 Changed name of -p (print version) option to -V
2178 Minor change in philosophy: if a SMART command fails or the device
2179 appears incapable of a SMART command that the user has asked for,
2180 complain by printing an error message, but go ahead and try
2181 anyway. Since unimplemented SMART commands should just return an
2182 error but not cause disk problems, this should't cause any
2185 Added two new flags: q and Q. q is quiet mode - only print: For
2186 the -l option, errors recorded in the SMART error log; For the -L
2187 option, errors recorded in the device self-test log; For the -c
2188 SMART "disk failing" status or device attributes (pre-failure or
2189 usage) which failed either now or in the past; For the -v option
2190 device attributes (pre-failure or usage) which failed either now
2191 or in the past. Q is Very Quiet mode: Print no ouput. The only
2192 way to learn about what was found is to use the exit status of
2195 smartctl now returns sensible values (bitmask). See smartctl.h
2196 for the values, and the man page for documentation.
2198 The SMART status check now uses the correct ATA call. If failure
2199 is detected we search through attributes to list the failed ones.
2200 If the SMART status check shows GOOD, we then look to see if their
2201 are any usage attributes or prefail attributes have failed at any
2202 time. If so we print them.
2204 Modified function that prints vendor attributes to say if the
2205 attribute has currently failed or has ever failed.
2207 -p option now prints out license info and CVS strings for all
2208 modules in the code, nicely formatted.
2210 Previous versions of this code (and Smartsuite) only generate
2211 SMART failure errors if the value of an attribute is below the
2212 threshold and the prefailure bit is set. However the ATA Spec
2213 (ATA4 <=Rev 4) says that it is a SMART failure if the value of an
2214 attribute is LESS THAN OR EQUAL to the threshold and the
2215 prefailure bit is set. This is now fixed in both smartctl and
2216 smartd. Note that this is a troubled subject -- the original
2217 SFF 8035i specification defining SMART was inconsistent about
2218 this. One section says that Attribute==Threshold is pass,
2219 and another section says it is fail. However the ATA specs are
2220 consistent and say Attribute==Threshold is a fail.
2222 smartd did not print the correct value of any failing SMART attribute. It
2223 printed the index in the attribute table, not the attribute
2226 when starting self-tests in captive mode ioctl returns EIO because
2227 the drive has been busied out. Detect this and don't return an eror
2228 in this case. Check this this is correct (or how to fix it?)
2230 fixed possible error in how to determine ATA standard support
2231 for devices with no ATA minor revision number.
2233 device opened only in read-only not read-write mode. Don't need R/W
2234 access to get smart data. Check this with Andre.
2236 smartctl now handles all possible choices of "multiple options"
2237 gracefully. It goes through the following phases of operation,
2238 in order: INFORMATION, ENABLE/DISABLE, DISPLAY DATA, RUN/ABORT TESTS.
2239 Documentation has bee updated to explain the different phases of
2240 operation. Control flow through ataPrintMain()
2243 If reading device identity information fails, try seeing if the info
2244 can be accessed using a "DEVICE PACKET" command. This way we can
2245 at least get device info.
2247 Modified Makefile to automatically tag CVS archive on issuance of
2250 Modified drive detection so minor device ID code showing ATA-3 rev
2251 0 (no SMART) is known to not be SMART capable.
2253 Now verify the checksum of the device ID data structure, and of the
2254 attributes threshold structure. Before neither of these
2255 structures had their checksums verified.
2257 New behavior vis-a-vis checksums. If they are wrong, we log
2258 warning messages to stdout, stderr, and syslog, but carry on
2259 anyway. All functions now call a checksumwarning routine if the
2260 checksum doesn't vanish as it should.
2262 Changed Read Hard Disk Identity function to get fresh info from
2263 the disk on each call rather than to use the values that were read
2264 upon boot-up into the BIOS. This is the biggest change in this
2265 release. The ioctl(device, HDIO_GET_IDENTITY, buf ) call should
2266 be avoided in such code. Note that if people get garbled strings
2267 for the model, serial no and firmware versions of their drives,
2268 then blame goes here (the BIOS does the byte swapping for you,
2271 Function ataSmartSupport now looks at correct bits in drive
2272 identity structure to verify first that these bits are valid,
2275 Function ataIsSmartEnabled() written which uses the Drive ID state
2276 information to tell if SMART is enabled or not. We'll carry this
2277 along for the moment without using it.
2279 Function ataDoesSmartWork() guaranteed to work if the device
2282 Replace some numbers by #define MACROS
2284 Wrote Function TestTime to return test time associated with each
2285 different type of test.
2287 Thinking of the future, have added a new function called
2288 ataSmartStatus2(). Eventually when I understand how to use the
2289 TASKFILE API and am sure that this works correctly, it will
2290 replace ataSmartStatus(). This queries the drive directly to
2291 see if the SMART status is OK, rather than comparing thresholds to
2292 attribute values ourselves. But I need to get some drives that fail
2293 their SMART status to check it.
2296 smartmontools-5.0-10
2297 Removed extraneous space before printing in some error messages
2298 Fixed additional typos in documentation
2299 Fixed some character buffers that were too short for their contents.
2303 Put project home path into all source files near the top
2304 Corrected typos in the documentation
2305 Modified Makefile so that Mandrake Cooker won't increment version number
2306 (unless they happen to be working on my machine, which I doubt!)
2308 smartmontools-5.0-8:
2310 For IBM disks whose raw temp data includes three temps. print all
2313 print timestamps for error log to msec precision
2315 added -m option for Hitachi disks that store power on life in
2318 added -L option for printing self-test error logs
2320 in -l option, now print power on lifetime, so that one can see
2321 when the error took place
2323 updated SMART structure definitions to ATA-5 spec
2327 added -f and -F options to enable/disable autosave threshold
2330 changed argv parsing to use getops -- elminate buffer overflow
2333 expanded and corrected documentation
2335 fixed problem with smartd. It did not actually call
2336 ataSmartEnable()! Since the argument was left out, the test
2337 always suceeded because it evaluated to a pointer to the function.
2339 smartd: closed open file descriptors if device does not support
2340 smart. Note: this still needs to be fixed for SCSI devices
2343 smartmontools-5.0-0 STARTED with smartsuite-2.1-2