-$Id: WARNINGS,v 1.33 2006/05/19 16:33:33 chrfranke Exp $
+$Id: WARNINGS 2844 2009-07-18 12:59:21Z chrfranke $
The most recent version of this file can be found here:
-http://smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net/smartmontools/sm5/WARNINGS?view=markup
+http://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/smartmontools/trunk/smartmontools/WARNINGS?view=markup
The following are reports of serious problems (eg system lockup) which
were due to smartmontools. There are DARWIN, LINUX, FREEBSD, SOLARIS
CYGWIN and WINDOWS
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-SYSTEM: Any Windows NT4, 2000 or XP system.
-PROBLEM: Use of undocumented system calls for IDE/ATA read log
- (smartctl -l, --log, -a, --all) may affect system stability.
-REPORTER: Christian Franke <smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net>
-NOTE: The IOCTL call SMART_RCV_DRIVE_DATA does not support
- ATA_SMART_READ_LOG_SECTOR on NT4/2000/XP. The Win32
- implementation of smartctl/smartd uses undocumented
- and possibly buggy system calls for this purpose:
- NT4: IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH with undocumented pseudo SCSI
- command SCSIOP_ATA_PASSTHROUGH (0xCC).
- 2000/XP: Undocumented IOCTL_IDE_PASS_THROUGH.
+[No problem reports yet.]
DARWIN