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SANtools® S.M.A.R.T. Disk Monitor (SMARTMon-UX)244
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· The HTML documentation now has a keyword index.
· -r flag added to -fciostat command to display raw totals for each statistic (instead of default changes over
time).
· Minor change to installation script to fix error message that appeared under Solaris if the gnu tools were in the
search path before /bin or /sbin.
· Fixed 32-bit overflow problem that would show incorrect disk drive capacity if total number of bytes on a disk drive
greater than approx. 300 GB.
Version 1.23 (Released December 2003)
· Implemented support for SNIA HBA API. Currently added to LINUX, SPARC Solaris & Windows. Other O/S's will
follow.
· Updated database to include additional vendor-unique entries for Seagate 146MB disk drives.
· Added HBA feature -fc which does full dump of all HBA & SAN-related fields.
· Added HBA feature -fcping , equivalent to an Ethernet ping, but for a WWN port number and LUN.
· Reports approx 20 new fields relating to self-tests for IDE disks (Implemented in LINUX only - windows O/S does
not allow this information to be reported).
· Reports following fields for ATA-3 type IDE disks (if not previously reported, and the disk supports reporting such
data). Service interrupt, look-ahead, write cache, security mode, advanced power management, removable media
notification, S.M.A.R.T. feature set, release interrupt, Max LBA in 48-bit mode (ATA-6+ disks only)
· Modified the installation script to correct problem preventing the script from working on 64-bit IRIX systems.
· Added support for reporting temperature on certain Maxtor disk drives (with +/- degrees C precision, if known).
· Reports up to 19 new vendor-unique Maxtor IDE S.M.A.R.T. threshold descriptions.
· Fixed problem with -T option. Program did not terminate as documented.
· Capacity in MB field overflowed if the total blocks of LUN was >= FFFFFFFEh (2.1 TB). Program now supports 16-
byte READ CAPACITY command.
· Expanded max size of SES-related reads to 4KB (prevented vendor-unique information in -E+ and -EH SES
dumps from appearing properly, but bug did not affect program's basic SES status reporting & alerting.
· Fixed non-compliant TapeAlert reporting capability discovered in Quantum DLT7000s. (Bug only affected TapeAlert
Features reporting, not TapeAlert monitoring).
· Program now detects if log sense results exceed buffer size. Bug caused the hex dump feature to be of incorrect
length.
· SES buffer size max on SES page 1 increased from 2048 to 4000 bytes (No problems with known encloses, did this
for future-proofing).
· SES dump (-E+) now includes ASCII text from SES Help Text page, if supported by enclosure vendor.
· SES dump (-E+) now includes decoding of SES threshold page.
· Added logic to decode additional Vendor-unique SES fields from DotHill enclosures (RPM legend, vendor-unique
fields, Help & Threshold).
· SES dump now incorporates ASCII text from SES description page, if data is available from enclosure.
· Added -z option to report physical disk status of drives behind supported LSI, SGI, and IBM RAID subsystems. This
option also reports significant amount of additional controller information with -I+ option.
· IDE disk drive temperature threshold monitoring available on some Maxtor IDE disks.
· The -Q option to dump partition information added to SPARC and X86 Solaris release.
· Windows release EMAIL engine now reports more descriptive error message if problem found sending email.
· Made minor text change in ASCII text portion of system-generated threshold monitoring file. Stated if threshold set
to zero, the selected value will ALWAYS get reported every polling period. This reflects program behavior.
· Removed redundant "X" character from system-generated threshold files.
· Fixed text on SES page descriptions (-EH option) where Pages 3-5 had wrong page description.
· Added new option (-EP2) to provide full SES control page programmability.
· All mode page editing functions for the "saved " (non-volatile) page have been disabled for evaluation builds.
· Added -p option to DISABLE SMART for all SCSI & FC disk drives. (It can not be used with the -P flag).
· Fixed problem where SES enclosures that present themselves as a target device did not get polled if using just the
-E option.
· Fixed buffer overflow problem unique to LINUX that would prevent the additional information shown with the I+
command if command line combined with -S option on IDE disk drives if there are more than 522 entries returned
by examining /dev/hd* list.
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