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SANtools® S.M.A.R.T. Disk Monitor (SMARTMon-UX)238
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· All Seagate SAS family disks as of this date added to vendor-specific database
· Additional SATA/ATA-8 commands added to enumerated error list and inquiry version fields
· Additional vendor-specific SMART fields enumerated for Maxtor, Fujitsu, and Seagate SATA disks
· Significantly more information reported for LSI MPT-family RAID controllers (seen in HP, Dell, IBM and other
systems)
· -bmsr command that reports background scanning results enhanced with additional output
· Support for LSI MPT-family RAID controllers added to SPARC Solaris version
· The -O command now works in Windows platform
· Additional return codes added
· (Version 1.36B, released June 2008, adds support for Intel Storage Servers)
· Added additional vendor-specific SATA S.M.A.R.T. entries
Version 1.35 (Released Dec 2007)
· Propagated increased SCSI pass-through buffer enhancement introduced in 1.34 to all LINUX variants
· Added commands to support DELL (LSI) family RAID controllers (-zd) (-zdd) (-zdL)
· Corrected total number of blocks on disk drive as shown on drive testing summary, quantity was last block number
instead of total number of blocks.
· (Enhanced random number generator for secure erase .. it now uses cryptographic-quality ISAAC random number
generator, and EVERY bit is randomized, not just a 16KB repeating pattern throughout the disk.
· Added new return code (12) for secure erase test, used to indicate that data on disk is not random
· SATA/ATA device support improved for SPARC Solaris, full ATA Identification report now generated
· ANSI-standard fields for ATA-8 class devices now enumerated
· Additional fields specific to 3WARE/AMCC 9x00 RAID controllers running firmware released after JUN 2007 added
· New function (-z3m) that dumps 3WARE/AMCC RAID controller event logs added
· Windows 2008 & Vista support added (For X86, IA64, and X86_64 architectures)
· Mac OSX 10.5 support for both Power PC & Intel architectures added
· -securecheck and -securecheckall functions added to Secure Erase
· Secure erase support added for SATA/ATA disks
· Program now reports device make/model as part of low-level format Are-you-sure message
· -Cx command to and/or suppress limitations to field size masks
· Windows-family EMAIL engine now supports -Port command which facilitates setting a non-standard SMTP port to
mail server
· - Secure erase logic now completes the random I/O phase significantly faster, now it takes only 25% more
time then
· the all-ones or all-zeros phase, instead of taking almost 3 X as long.
Version 1.34 (Released Oct 2007)
· (Windows-only) Increased size of SCSI pass-thru buffer from 32K to 64K to support certain vendor-unique log
pages,
· Approx 100 additional reportable fields applicable to Engenio (LSI) external RAID engines added
· Added additional inquiry data reporting specific to SATA disks attached to SAS/SATA controllers (SAT protocol)
· Windows version now utilizes single executable that works for systems that do not have SNIA FC drivers installed
(Previous releases were distributed with 2 separate executables)
· Background media scanning commands added (-bmsd) (-bmse) (-bmsr)
Version 1.33 (Released Jul 2007)
· X86_64 LINUX build released
· Reporting & configuring background media scans added
· Additional vendor-unique log pages added
· (Windows-only) temporary files for windows versions are now saved in user-specific temp file directory instead of
executable's directory.
· (Non-Windows) temp files now start with /tmp/santoolsXXXXXX rather than /tmp/junkXXXXXX
· MAC-address based licensing added for Windows family versions
· Background initialization sub page now reported
· ANSI SES-page A now reported
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