Imported Upstream version 6.1+svn3812

[mirror_smartmontools-debian.git] / INSTALL

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+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Smartmontools installation instructions
 =======================================
 
-$Id: INSTALL 3555 2012-06-01 21:07:33Z chrfranke $
+$Id: INSTALL 3713 2012-11-23 21:26:17Z chrfranke $
 
 Please also see the smartmontools home page:
 http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ Table of contents:
 
     E) Cygwin
 
-    The code was tested on Cygwin 1.7.7-1. It should also work on other
+    The code was tested on Cygwin 1.7.15-1.  It should also work on other
     recent releases.
 
     Both Cygwin and Windows versions of smartmontools share the same code
@@ -106,40 +106,14 @@ Table of contents:
 
     F) Windows
 
-    The code was tested on Windows 98SE, ME, NT4(SP5,SP6), 2000(SP4),
-    XP(up to SP3), 2003, Vista and Windows 7.
-
-    -- Windows 9x/ME
-
-    On 9x/ME, only standard (legacy) IDE/ATA devices 0-3 are supported.
-    The driver SMARTVSD.VXD must be present in WINDOWS\SYSTEM\IOSUBSYS
-    to get loaded at Windows startup. The default location in a new
-    installation of some versions of Windows is the WINDOWS\SYSTEM folder.
-    In this case, move SMARTVSD.VXD to WINDOWS\SYSTEM\IOSUBSYS and reboot
-    (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/265854/en-us).
-
-    SMARTVSD.VXD relies on the standard IDE port driver ESDI_506.PDR.
-    If the system uses a vendor specific driver, access of SMART data
-    is not possible.
-
-    Some ATA controllers (e.g. Promise) provided a custom SMARTVSD.VXD
-    for their Win9x/ME driver. To access SMART data from both the legacy
-    (/dev/h[a-d]) and this additional (/dev/hd[e-h]) controller, rename
-    this file to SMARTVSE.VXD. Open the file with a hex editor and replace
-    all occurrences of the string "SMARTVSD" with "SMARTVSE". Then reinstall
-    the original Windows SMARTVSD.VXD.
-
-    To access SCSI and USB devices, an installed ASPI interface (WNASPI32.DLL)
-    is required. The code was tested with Adaptec Windows ASPI drivers 4.71.2.
-    (http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/support/_eol/scsi_sw/ASPI-4.70/)
-    Links to other ASPI drivers can be found at http://www.nu2.nu/aspi/.
-
-    -- Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003/Vista/Win7
+    The code was tested on Windows XP SP3, 2003, Vista, Windows 7 and
+    Windows 8 Release Preview.  Support von Windows 9x/ME and NT4 was removed
+    after smartmontools 5.43.
 
     ATA or SATA devices are supported if the device driver implements
     the SMART IOCTLs or IOCTL_IDE_PASS_THROUGH or IOCTL_ATA_PASS_THROUGH.
-    The ATA SMART READ LOG command (smartctl -l, --log, -a, --all) is not
-    supported if only the SMART IOCTLs are implemented.
+    Only the latter provides full pass-through support which is needed
+    for all smartmontools features.
 
     SCSI and USB devices are accessed through SPTI. Special driver support
     is not required.
@@ -458,8 +432,6 @@ Cross-compile statically linked 64-bit version with MinGW-w64:
   Tested on Cygwin and Debian Linux with MinGW-w64 from
   http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/.
 
-WARNING: The smartmontools version for 64-bit Windows is still EXPERIMENTAL.
-
 Cross-compile on Cygwin with old gcc-mingw 3.x:
 
   ./configure --build=$(./config.guess) \
@@ -532,10 +504,9 @@ use the following on MSYS or Cygwin:
   ../configure [... any MinGW option set from above ...]
   make config-vc10
 
-  The MSVC project files (os_win32/smartmontools_vc10.sln,
-  os_win32/smart{ctl,d}_vc10.vcxproj) are included in SVN (but not in
-  source tarball). The target config-vc10 from a Makefile configured
-  for MinGW creates os_win32/{config,svnversion}_vc10.h from
+  The MSVC project files (os_win32/vc10/*) are included in SVN (but not
+  in source tarball). The target config-vc10 from a Makefile configured
+  for MinGW creates os_win32/vc10/{config,svnversion}.h from
   ./{config,svnversion}.h. The configure skript must be run outside
   of the source directory to avoid inclusion of the original config.h.
 
@@ -621,7 +592,7 @@ The following files are installed if ./configure has no options:
 /usr/local/share/man/man8/smartctl.8                    [Manual page]
 /usr/local/share/man/man8/smartd.8                      [Manual page]
 /usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools/AUTHORS              [Information about the authors and developers]
-/usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools/CHANGELOG            [A log of changes. Also see SVN]
+/usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools/ChangeLog            [A log of changes. Also see SVN]
 /usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools/COPYING              [GNU General Public License Version 2]
 /usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools/INSTALL              [Installation instructions: what you're reading!]
 /usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools/NEWS                 [Significant bugs discovered in old versions]