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in reporting several hundred new fields)
· Major enhancement to LSI internal RAID logic to support SAS-2 peripherals and next generation of API.
· Added email-reporting to Infortrend hardware that is being monitored
· Increased sizes of pass-through to prevent truncating log pages > approx 60KB.
· Added vendor-unique enumeration and reporting for several dozen new disk drives, SES enclosures and tape
drives. See -V+ option for latest list.
· Removed need for scratch file during enumeration, which prevents multiple instances in same directory from
conflicting with each other when they run concurrently. Scratch files now stay in RAM as needed and are
automatically purged when the program terminates.
· Added new option -M in threshold monitoring for monitoring and reporting values on polling period
· The -F 0 option to perform SMART poll once and exit was previously limited to windows, now it works on all
operating systems.
· Added support for HP's VMS / OpenVMS [Via a restricted reseller channel]
· Significantly improved performance of all -secure erase tests, and self-tests, they run as much as 3 times faster.
· Enhanced NIC-based licensing so it no longer keys off of first ethernet controller.
· Fixed problem enumerating HP MAS70 and Newisys SES enclosures by increasing a buffer size. Added SES
command to control drive ID bay LEDs.
· Added -sqq option to suppress all logging
· Added -HEALTH and -HEALTHFULL options
· Added several options for media verification -verify
Version 1.39 (Released OCT 2008)
· Added additional reporting capability for LSI-family embedded and PCI-based RAID and JBOD controllers (Board
information; enumeration of RAID configuration; reformatted output to make it easier to understand; report serial
numbers of individual drives.
· Added -zdq parameter for reporting just disk drives behind LSI-family embedded and PCI-based RAID controllers
· Added -flashses7 command, originally added to SPARC-Solaris version 1.38 only to all operating systems.
· Additional fields to enumerate health and configuration of LSI-family external RAID subsystems was added.
· The -zd family of commands now report the physical device name that the operating system assigns to physical
and logical disks. If a disk is part of a RAID configuration, it will report bus and target information only.
Version 1.38 (Released SEP 2008)
· Added -flashses7 command for flashing SES enclosures that require "type 7" firmware updates. (LSI SAS Shea
enclosures, for example)
· (This is an interim build that served as a test revision until the -flashses7 was fully tested)
Version 1.37 (Released JUN 2008)
· 64-Bit HP/UX added
· The -flash command no longer limits itself to disk drives. If the target device is SCSI, SAS, or Fibre Channel,
and it supports the ANSI-standard firmware flashing mechanism, then the command will allow firmware to be
flashed to any device type.
· Added -flashses command to flash new SES firmware on supported enclosures
· Support for SES / enclosure management added for Intel SSR212MC systems which are OEMed by numerous
vendors (such as the HS-1235E by Xyratex)
· Fixed problem that caused program to crash if there was a 3WARE controller configured without any disks and user
sent command to enumerate the configuration.
· Program now traps kill, quit, CTRL-C commands/keystrokes, and exits with the ABORTEDBYUSER return code
22 and displays appropriate message depending on whether user terminated the program or it was terminated by
the operator. It now also insures that all scratch files are deleted when program is aborted by user.
Version 1.36 (Released May 2008)
· Added a series of commands to spin SCSI/FC/SAS disks up (-spinup ), down, and to query spin status
· Added -EPL family of SES commands to support LSI Shea enclosures, as well as other enclosures that report
array devices
· LSI Shea SAS family enclosures now report vendor-unique configuration fields
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