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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Smartmontools installation instructions
 =======================================
 
-$Id: INSTALL 3414 2011-09-09 21:07:55Z chrfranke $
+$Id: INSTALL 3555 2012-06-01 21:07:33Z chrfranke $
 
 Please also see the smartmontools home page:
 http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
@@ -193,6 +193,13 @@ Table of contents:
     hard drive comes with the offline test switched on by default, so
     even that works.
 
+    The OS X SAT SMART Driver provides access to SMART data for SAT capable
+    USB and Firewire devices:
+    https://github.com/kasbert/OS-X-SAT-SMART-Driver
+    https://github.com/RJVB/OS-X-SAT-SMART-Driver
+    This does not require any smartctl -d TYPE option and should work also
+    with older smartmontools releases.
+
     H) OS/2, eComStation
 
     The code was tested on eComStation 1.1, but it should work on all versions
@@ -419,14 +426,9 @@ Same as Red Hat:
   file type ("binmode" mount option) set. The "autogen.sh" script prints a
   warning if DOS type is selected.
 
-  If installing from SVN, you may check out all files either with CR/LF
-  or LF line endings. Starting with release 3.1-7, Cygwin's bash does no
-  longer accept scripts with CR/LF by default. To run the initial script
-  ./autogen.sh checked out with CR/LF on a "binmode" mount, type:
-
-  bash -o igncr ./autogen.sh
-
-  instead. This is not necessary for the generated ./configure script.
+  Files may also be checked out with a non-Cygwin SVN client which uses CR/LF
+  for svn:eol-style=native.  The "autogen.sh" script has svn:eol-style=LF.
+  Bash option "-o igncr" is not required.
 
 [10] Guidelines for Windows
 ===========================
@@ -500,6 +502,11 @@ To create a Windows installer, use:
   It is also possible to (cross-)build the installer on Linux.
   This was successfully tested on Debian with package "nsis".
 
+To create a combined 32-/64-bit installer, use this in 32-bit build
+directory if 64-build directory is at ../build64:
+
+  make builddir_win64=../build64 installer_win32
+
 To both create and run the (interactive) installer, use:
 
   make install-win32