CHANGELOG for smartmontools $Id: CHANGELOG,v 1.272 2003/11/28 23:42:04 ballen4705 Exp $ The most recent version of this file is: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/smartmontools/sm5/CHANGELOG?sortby=date&view=markup Maintainers / Developers Key: [BA] Bruce Allen [EB] Erik Inge Bolsø [SB] Stanislav Brabec [PC] Peter Cassidy [CD] Caper Dik [GF] Guilhem Frézou [DG] Douglas Gilbert [GG] Guido Guenther [DK] Dr. David Kirkby [KM] Kai Mäkisara [EM] Eduard Martinescu [FM] Frédéric L. W. Meunier [PW] Phil Williams NOTES FOR FUTURE RELEASES: see TODO file. smartmontools 5.26 [BA] Improved user messages that appear from 'make install' [PW] Removed warning for SAMSUNG SP1213N with firmware TL100-23 [BA] incorporated SuSE init script from user. [DG] if SCSI device is read only, then open it read only. [BA] when compiled on non-supported system (NOT linux, freebsd or solaris) then the run-time error messages now clearly say 'your system is not supported' and give clear directions. [BA] ./configure script now works correctly on SuSE linux boxes [BA] minor improvements to man pages [BA] simplified detection of packet (ATAPI, CD) devices. [BA] init script (redhat, mandrake, yellowdog) now uses correct strings for translation and is slightly more standard. [DG] smartctl: output scsi Seagate vendor pages for disks (not tapes) smartmontools 5.25 Note: there was no '5.24' release. From this point on, even numbered releases will be 'stable' ones and odd numbered releases will be unstable/testing/development ones. [DG] smartd/smartctl: changed scsiClearControlGLTSD() to scsiSetControlGLTSD() with an 'enabled' argument so '-S on' and '-S off' work for SCSI devices (if changing GLTSD supported). [BA] smartd/smartctl: wired in scsiClearControlGLTSD(). Could still use a corresponding Set function. Left stubs for this purpose. [DG] scsicmds: added scsiClearControlGLTSD() [still to be wired in] [BA] smartctl: make SCSI -T options behave the same way as the ATA ones. [DG] smartctl: output scsi transport protocol if available [DG] scsi: stop device scan in smartd and smartctl if badly formed mode response [heuristic to filter out USB devices before we (potentially) lock them up]. [BA] smartd: deviceclose()->CloseDevice(). Got rid of SCSIDEVELOPMENT macro-enabled code. Added -W to list of gcc specific options to always enable. Made code clean for -W warnings. [PW] Added Maxtor DiamondMax VL 30 family to knowndrives table. [DG] scsi: add warning (when '-l error' active) if Control mode page GLTSD bit is set (global disable of saving log counters) [DG] scsi: remember mode sense cmd length. Output trip temperature from IE lpage (IBM extension) when unavailable from temp lpage. [BA] smartd: for both SCSI and ATA now warns user if either the number of self-test errors OR timestamp of most recent self-test error have increased. [DG] smartctl: output Seagate scsi Cache and Factory log pages (if available) when vendor attributes chosen [DG] smartd: add scsiCountFailedSelfTests() function. [DG] Do more sanity checking of scsi log page responses. [BA] smartd: now warns user if number of self-test errors has increased for SCSI devices. [BA] smartd: warn user if number of ATA self-test errors increases (as before) OR if hour time stamp of most recent self-test error changes. [DG] More checks for well formed mode page responses. This has the side effect of stopping scans on bad SCSI implementations (e.g. some USB disks) prior to sending commands (typically log sense) that locks them up. [PW] Added Western Digital Caviar family and Caviar SE family to knowndrives table. [BA] smartd: added -l daemon (which is the default value if -l is not used). [PW] Added Seagate Barracuda ATA V family to knowndrives table. [BA] smartd: added additional command line argument -l FACILITY or --logfacility FACILITY. This can be used to redirect messages from smartd to a different file than the one used by other system daemons. [PW] Added Seagate Barracuda 7200.7, Western Digital Protege WD400EB, and Western Digital Caviar AC38400 to knowndrives table. [BA] smartd: scanning should now also work correctly for devfs WITHOUT traditional links /dev/hd[a-t] or /dev/sd[a-z]. [PW] Added Maxtor 4W040H3, Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Plus, IBM Deskstar 120GXP (40GB), Seagate U Series 20410, Fujitsu MHM2100AT, MHL2300AT, MHM2150AT, and IBM-DARA-212000 to knowndrives table. [PW] Added remaining Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 models to knowndrives table. [EM] smartd: If no matches found, then return 0, rather than an error indication, as it just means no devices of the given type exist. Adjust FreeBSD scan code to mirror Linux version. [BA] smartd: made device scan code simpler and more robust. If too many devices detected, warn user but scan as many as possible. If error in scanning, warn user but don't die right away. [EM] smartd: To keep as consistent as possible, migrate FreeBSD devicescan code to also use glob(3). Also verified clean compile on a 4.7 FreeBSD system. [BA] smartd: Modified device scan code to use glob(3). Previously it appeared to have trouble when scanning devices on an XFS file system, and used non-public interface to directory entries. Problems were also reported when /dev/ was on an ext2/3 file system, but there was a JFS partition on the same disk. [BA] Clearer error messages when device scanning finds no suitable devices. [EM] FreeBSD: Fixup code to allow for proper compilation under -STABLE branch. smartmontools 5.23 [BA] smartd: didn't close file descriptors of ATA packet devices that are scanned. Fixed. [BA] Added reload/report targets to the smartmontools init script. reload: reloads config file report: send SIGUSR1 to check devices now smartmontools 5.22 [EM] Fix compile issues for FreeBSD < 5-CURRENT. [PW] Added Fujitsu MHM2200AT to knowndrives table. [BA] To help catch bugs, clear ATA error structures before all ioctl calls. Disable code that attempted to time-out on SCSI devices when they hung (doesn't work). [BA] Documented STATUS/ERROR flags added by [PW] below. [BA] Improved algorithm to recognize ATA packet devices. Should no longer generate SYSLOG kernel noise when user tries either smartd or smartctl on packet device (CD-ROM or DVD). Clearer warning messages from smartd when scanning ATA packet device. [PW] Added TOSHIBA MK4025GAS to knowndrives table. [PW] Added a textual interpretation of the status and error registers in the SMART error log (ATA). The interpretation is command-dependent and currently only eight commands are supported (those which produced errors in the error logs that I happen to have seen). [BA] added memory allocation tracking to solaris code. Fixed solaris signal handling (reset handler to default after first call to handler) by using sigset. Added HAVE_SIGSET to configure.in [CD] solaris port: added SCSI functionality to solaris stubs. [BA] smartd: attempt to address bug report about smartd hanging on USB devices when scanning: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107615 Set a timeout of SCSITIMEOUT (nominally 7 seconds) before giving up. [EM] smartd: DEVICESCAN will follow links in a devfs filesystem and make sure the end point is a disc. Update documentation, added note about FreeBSD scanning [BA] smartd: DEVICESCAN also looks for block devices in /dev. Updated documentation. Now scans for up to 20 ATA devices /dev/hda-t rather than previous 12 /dev/hda-l. [EM] smartd: mirror the FreeBSD DEVICESCAN logic for Linux, so that smartd now scans only devices found in /dev/. Also, make utility memory functions take a line number and file so that we report errors with the correct location. [GG] add a note about Debian bug #208964 to WARNINGS. [BA] smartctl: -T verypermissive option broken. Use -T verpermissive until the next release, please. [BA] Syntax mods so that code also compiles on Solaris using Sun Workshop compiler. Need -xmemalign 1i -xCC flags for cc. smartmontools 5.21 [DK] Changed configure.in so -Wall is only included if gcc is used (this is a gcc specific flag) and -fsignedchar is not used at all (this is a gcc specific compiler flag). [BA] Modifications so that code now compiles under solaris. Now all that's needed (:-) is to fill in os_solaris.[hc]. Added os_generic.[hc] as guide to future ports. Fixed -D option of smartd (no file name). Modified -h opt of smartd/smartctl to work properly with solaris getopt(). [EM] Update MAN pages with notes that 3ware drives are NOT supported under FreeBSD. Cleanup FreeBSD warning message handling. [EM] FreeBSD only: Fix first user found bug....I guess I was making the wrong assumption on how to convert ATA devnames to channel/unit numbers. [EM] Allow for option --enable-sample to append '.sample' to installed smartd.conf and rc script files. Also, let rc script shell setting be determined by configure [EM] Minor autoconf update to include -lcam for FreeBSD [EM] Add conditional logic to allow FreeBSD to compile pre-ATAng. -- note, not tested Add some documentation to INSTALL for FreeBSD. [EM] Implement SCSI CAM support for FreeBSD. NOTE: I am not an expert in the use of CAM. It seems to work for me, but I may be doing something horribly wrong, so please exercise caution. [EM] Switch over to using 'atexit' rather than 'on_exit' routine. This also meant we needed to save the exit status elsewhere so our 'Goodbye' routine could examine it. [EM] Move the DEVICESCAN code to os specific files. Also moved some of the smartd Memory functions to utility.c to make available to smartctl. [EM] Code janitor work on os_freebsd.c. [EM] Added os_freebsd.[hc] code. Additional code janitor work. [BA] Code janitor working, moving OS dependent code into os_linux.[hc]. [GG] conditionally compile os_{freebsd,linux}.o depending on host architecture [PW] Print estimated completion time for tests [BA] Added -F samsung2 flag to correct firmware byte swap. All samsung drives with *-23 firmware revision string. smartmontools 5.20 [GG] Fixed broken Makefile.am (zero length smartd.conf.5 was being created), fix broken uninstall/distcheck targets [FM] Improved Slackware init script added to /etc/smartd.initd smartmontools 5.19 [NOTE CHANGE OF RELEASE NUMBERING] [BA] smartctl: added '-T verypermissive' option which is equivalent to giving '-T permissive' many times. [BA] Try harder to identify from IDENTIFY DEVICE structure if SMART supported/enabled. smartd now does a more thorough job of trying to assess this before sending a SMART status command to find out for sure. [BA] smartctl: it's now possible to override the program's guess of the device type (ATA or SCSI) with -d option. [BA] try hard to avoid sending IDENTIFY DEVICE to packet devices (CDROMS). They can't do SMART, and this generates annoying syslog messages. At the same time, identify type of Packet device. [BA] smartctl: Can now use permissive option more than once, to control how far to go before giving up. [BA] smartd: if user asked to monitor either error or self-test logs (-l error or -l selftest) WITHOUT monitoring any of the Attribute values, code will SEGV. For 5.1-18 and earlier, a good workaround is to enable Auto offline (-o on). [BA] smartctl: If enable auto offline command given, update auto offline status before printing capabilities. [GG] Make autotools build the default, remove autotools.diff [GG] Add auto{conf,make} support, not enabled by default. [BA] Eliminated #include from code. This should simplify porting to solaris, FreeBSD, etc. The only linux-specific code is now isolated to three routines, one for SCSI, one for Escalade, one for ATA. smartmontools 5.1-18 [BA] smartd: fixed serious bug - Attributes not monitored unless user told smartd to ignore at least one of them! smartmontools 5.1-17 [BA] Default runlevels for smartd changed from 3 and 5 to 2, 3, 4, and 5. [BA] Removed as much dynamic memory allocation as possible from configuration file parsing. Reloading config file, even in presence of syntax errors etc. should not cause memory leaks. [PW] It is no longer permissible for the integer part (if any) of arguments to --report and --device to be followed by non-digits. For example, the "foo" in --report=ioctl,2foo was previously ignored, but now causes an error. [BA] smartd: added -q/--quit command line option to specify under what circumstances smartd should exit. The old -c/--checkonce option is now obsoleted by this more general-purpose option. [BA] smartd now responds to a HUP signal by re-reading its configuration file /etc/smartd.conf. If there are errors in this file, then the configuration file is ignored and smartd continues to monitor the devices that it was monitoring prior to receiving the HUP signal. [BA] Now correctly get SMART status from disks behind 3ware controllers, thanks to Adam Radford. Need 3w-xxxx driver version 1.02.00.037 or later. Previously the smartmontools SMART status always returned "OK" for 3ware controllers. [BA] Additional work on dynamic memory allocation/deallocation. This should have no effect on smartctl, but clears that way for smartd to dynamically add and remove entries. It should also now be easier to modify smartd to re-read its config file on HUP (which is easy) without leaking memory (which is harder). The philosophy is that memory for data structures in smartd is now allocated only on demand, the first time it is needed. [BA] smartd: finished cleanup. Now use create/rm functions for cfgentries and dynamic memory allocation almost everywhere. Philosophy: aggresively try and provoke SEGV to help find bad code. [BA] Added SAMSUNG SV0412H to knowndrives table. [BA] smartd: if DEVICESCAN used then knowndrives table might not set the -v attributes correctly -- may have been the same for all the drives. Cleaned up some data structures and memory allocation to try and ensure segvs if such problems are introduced again. [BA] Now allow -S on and -o on for the 3ware device type. For these commands to be passed through, the stock 3ware 3w-xxxx driver must be patched (8 lines). I'll post a patch on the smartmontools home page after it's been tested by a few other people and 3ware have had a chance to look it over. smartmontools-5.1-16 [BA] smartd - can now monitor ATA drives behind 3ware controllers. [BA] smartd - changed some FATAL out of memory error messages from syslog level LOG_INFO to LOG_CRIT. [BA] smartctl - added code to look at ATA drives behind 3ware RAID controllers using the 3w-xxxx driver. Note that for technical reasons related to the 3w-xxxx driver, the "Enable Autosave", "Enable Automatic Offline" commands are not implemented. I will add this to smartd shortly. [BA] smartd - modified sleep loop, so that smartd no longer comes on the run queue every second. Instead, unless interrupted, it sleeps until the next polling time, when it wakes up. Now smartd also tries to wake up at exactly the right intervals (nominally 30 min) even if the user has been sending signals to it. [GG] add Fujitsu MHN2300AT to vendoropts_9_seconds. [EB] Fujitsu change in knowndrives ... match the whole MPD and MPE series for vendoropts_9_seconds. [BA] smartd bug, might cause segv if a device can not be opened. Was due to missing comma in char* list. Consequence is that email failure messages might have had the wrong Subject: heading for errorcount, FAILEDhealthcheck, FAILEDreadsmartdata, FAILEDreadsmarterrorlog, FAILEDreadsmartsefltestlog, FAILEDopendevice were all displaced by one. And FAILEDopendevice might have caused a segv if -m was being used as a smartd Directive. smartmontools-5.1-15 [BA] Cleaned up smartmontools.spec so that upgrading, removing and other such operations correctly preserve running behavior and booting behavior of smartd. [BA] Improved formatting of ATA Error Log printout, and added listing of names of commands that caused the error. Added obsolete ATA-4 SMART feature commands to table, along with obsolete SFF-8035i SMART feature command. [PW] Added atacmdnames.[hc], which turn command register & feature register pairs into ATA command names. [BA] Added conveyance self-test. Some code added for selective self-tests, but #ifdefed out. [BA] Modified smartd exit status and log levels. If smartd is "cleanly" terminated, for example with SIGTERM, then its exit messages are now logged at LOG_INFO not LOG_CRIT [BA] Added Attribute IDs (Fujitsu) 0xCA - 0xCE. This is decimal 202-206. Added -v switches for interpretation of Attributes 192, 198 and 201. [BA] Made smartmontools work with any endian order machine for: - SMART selftest log - SMART ATA error log - SMART Attributes values - SMART Attributes thesholds - IDENTIFY DEVICE information - LOG DIRECTORY Smartmontools is now free of endian bias and works correctly on both little- and big-endian hardware. This has been tested by three independent PPC users on a variety of ATA and SCSI hardware. [DG] Check that certain SCSI command responses are well formed. If IEC mode page response is not well formed exit smartctl. This is to protect aacraid. smartd should ignore a aacraid device. smartmontools-5.1-14 [BA] smartctl: added column to -A output to show if Attributes are updated only during off-line testing or also during normal operation. smartmontools-5.1-13 [BA] smartd: attempt to enable/disable automatic offline testing even if the disk appears not to support it. Now the same logic as smartctl. [BA] Added definition of Attribute 201, soft read error rate. [BA] Added IBM/Hitachi IC35L120AVV207-1 (GXP-180) and corresponding 8MB Cache GXP-120 to drive database. [BA] smartd: if DEVICESCAN Directive used in smartd.conf, and -I, -R or -r Directives used in conjunction with this, got segv errors. Fixed by correcting memory allocation calls. [BA] smartd: enable automatic offline testing was broken due to cut-and-paste error that disabled it instead of enabling it. Thanks to Maciej W. Rozycki for pointing out the problem and solution. [BA] Fixed "spelling" of some Attribute names to replace spaces in names by underscores. (Fixed field width easier for awk style parsing.) [BA,GF] Added mods submitted by [GF] to support Attribute 193 being load/unload cycles. Add -v 193,loadunload option, useful for Hitachi drive DK23EA-30, and add this drive to knowndrive.c Add meaning of attribute 250 : Read error retry rate smartmontools-5.1-12 [BA] Added another entry for Samsung drives to knowndrive table. [DG] Refine SCSI log sense command to do a double fetch in most cases (but not for the TapeAlert log page). Fix TapeAlert and Self Test log page response truncation. [PW] Added 'removable' argument to -d Directive for smartd. This indicates that smartd should continue (rather than exit) if the device does not appear to be present. [BA] Modified smartmontools.spec [Man pages location] and smartd.initd [Extra space kills chkconfig!] for Redhat 6.x compatibility (thanks to Gerald Schnabel). smartmontools-5.1-11 [EB] Add another Fujitsu disk to knowndrives.c [GG] match for scsi/ and ide/ in case of devfs to exclude false postives [BA] If SCSI device listed in /etc/smartd.conf fails to open or do SMART stuff correctly, or not enough space to list all SCSI devices, fail with error unless -DSCSIDEVELOPMENT set during compile-time. [BA] Added automatic recognition of /dev/i* (example: /dev/ide/...) as an ATA device. [DG] Add "Device type: [disk | tape | medium changer | ...] line to smartctl -i output for SCSI devices. [PW] Fixed bug in smartd where test email would be sent regularly (for example, daily if the user had specified -M daily) instead of just once on startup. [KM] More TapeAlert work. Added translations for media changer alerts. TapeAlert support reported according to the log page presence. ModeSense not attempted for non-ready tapes (all drives do not support this after all). Get peripheral type from Inquiry even if drive info is not printed. Add QUIETON() QUIETOFF() to TapeAlert log check. [BA] Stupid bug in atacmds.c minor_str[] affected ataVersionInfo(). Two missing commas meant that minor_str[] had two few elements, leading to output like this: Device Model: Maxtor 6Y120L0 Serial Number: Y40BF74E Firmware Version: YAR41VW0 Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 7 ATA Standard is: 9,minutes ^^^^^^^^^ Missing commas inserted. [BA] Fixed smartd bug. On device registration, if ATA device did not support SMART error or self-test logs but user had asked to monitor them, an attempt would be made to read them anyway, possibly generating "Drive Seek" errors. We now check that the self-test and error logs are supported before trying to access them the first time. [GG/BA] Fixed bug where if SMART ATA error log not supported, command was tried anyway. Changed some error printing to use print handlers. [GG] Makefile modifications to ease packaging [DG] Did work for TapeAlerts (SCSI). Now can detect /dev/nst0 as a SCSI device. Also open SCSI devices O_NONBLOCK so they don't hang on open awaiting media. The ATA side should worry about this also: during a DEVICESCAN a cd/dvd device without media will hang. Added some TapeAlert code suggested by Kai Makisara. smartmontools-5.1-10 [PW] Extended the -F option/Directive to potentially fix other firmware bugs in addition to the Samsung byte-order bug. Long option name is now --firmwarebug and the option/Directive accepts an argument indicating the type of firmware bug to fix. [BA] Fixed a bug that prevented the enable automatic off-line test feature from enabling. It also prevented the enable Attribute autosave from working. See CVS entry for additional details. [PW] Modified the -r/--report option (smartctl and smartd) to allow the user to specify the debug level as a positive integer. [BA] Added --log directory option to smartctl. If the disk supports the general-purpose logging feature set (ATA-6/7) then this option enables the Log Directory to be printed. This Log Directory shows which device logs are available, and their lengths in sectors. [PW] Added -P/--presets option to smartctl and -P Directive to smartd. [GG] Introduce different exit codes indicating the type of problem encountered for smartd. [DG] Add non-medium error count to '-l error' and extended self test duration to '-l selftest'. Get scsi IEs and temperature changes working in smartd. Step over various scsi disk problems rather than abort smartd startup. [DG] Support -l error for SCSI disks (and tapes). Output error counter log pages. [BA] Added -F/--fixbyteorder option to smartctl. This allows us to read SMART data from some disks that have byte-reversed two- and four- byte quantities in their SMART data structures. [BA] Fixed serious bug: the -v options in smartd.conf were all put together and used together, not drive-by-drive. [PW] Added knowndrives.h and knowndrives.c. The knowndrives array supersedes the drivewarnings array. [GG] add {-p,--pidfile} option to smartd to write a PID file on startup. Update the manpage accordingly. [DG] Fix scsi smartd problem detecting SMART support. More cleaning and fix (and rename) scsiTestUnitReady(). More scsi renaming. [BA] Fixed smartd so that if a disk that is explictily listed is not found, then smartd will exit with nonzero status BEFORE forking. If a disk can't be registered, this will also be detected before forking, so that init scripts can react correctly. [BA] Replaced all linux-specific ioctl() calls in atacmds.c with a generic handler smartcommandhandler(). Now the only routine that needs to be implemented for a given OS is os_specific_handler(). Also implemented the --report ataioctl. This provides two levels of reporting. Using the option once gives a summary report of device IOCTL transactions. Using the option twice give additional info (a printout of ALL device raw 512 byte SMART data structures). This is useful for debugging. [DG] more scsi cleanup. Output scsi device serial number (VPD page 0x80) if available as part of '-i'. Implement '-t offline' as default self test (only self test older disks support). [BA] Changed crit to info in loglevel of smartd complaint to syslog if DEVICESCAN enabled and device not found. [BA] Added -v 194,10xCelsius option/Directive. Raw Attribute number 194 is ten times the disk temperature in Celsius. [DG] scsicmds.[hc] + scsiprint.c: clean up indentation, remove tabs. Introduce new intermediate interface based on "struct scsi_cmnd_io" to isolate SCSI generic commands + responses from Linux details; should help port to FreeBSD of SCSI part of smartmontools. Make SCSI command builders more parametric. smartmontools-5.1-9 [BA] smartctl: if HDIO_DRIVE_TASK ioctl() is not implemented (no kernel support, then try to assess drive health by examining Attribute values/thresholds directly. [BA] smartd/smartctl: added -v 200,writeerrorcount option/Directive for Fujitsu disks. [BA] smartd: Now send email if any of the SMART commands fails, or if open()ing the device fails. This is often noted as a common disk failure mode. [BA] smartd/smartctl: Added -v N,raw8 -v N,raw16 and -v N,raw48 Directives/Options for printing Raw Attributes in different Formats. [BA] smartd: Added -r ID and -R ID for reporting/tracking Raw values of Attributes. [BA] smartd/smartctl: Changed printing of spin-up-time attribute raw value to reflect current/average as per IBM standard. [BA] smartd/smartctl: Added -v 9,seconds option for disks which use Attribute 9 for power-on lifetime in seconds. [BA] smartctl: Added a warning message so that users of some IBM disks are warned to update their firmware. Note: we may want to add a command-line flag to disable the warning messages. I have done this in a general way, using regexp, so that we can add warnings about any type of disk that we wish... smartmontools-5.1-7 [BA] smartd: Created a subdirectory examplescripts/ of source directory that contains executable scripts for the -M exec PATH Directive of smartd. smartmontools-5.1-5 [BA] smartd: DEVICESCAN in /etc/smartd.conf can now be followed by all the same Directives as a regular device name like /dev/hda takes. This allows one to use (for example): DEVICESCAN -m root@example.com in the /etc/smartd.conf file. [BA] smartd: Added -c (--checkonce) command-line option. This checks all devices once, then exits. The exit status can be used to learn if devices were detected, and if smartd is functioning correctly. This is primarily for Distribution scripters. [BA] smartd: Implemented -M exec Directive for smartd.conf. This makes it possible to run an arbitrary script or mailing program with the -m option. [PW] smartd: Modified -M Directive so that it can be given multiple times. Added -M exec Directive. smartmontools-5.1-4 [BA] Fixed bug in smartctl pointed out by Pierre Gentile. -d scsi didn't work because tryata and tryscsi were reversed -- now works on /devfs SCSI devices. [BA] Fixed bug in smartctl pointed out by Gregory Goddard . Manual says that bit 6 of return value turned on if errors found in smart error log. But this wasn't implemented. smartmontools-5.1-3 [BA] Modified printing format for 9,minutes to read Xh+Ym not X h + Y m, so that fields are fixed width. [BA] Added Attribute 240 "head flying hours" smartmontools-5.1.1 [BA] As requested, local time/date now printed by smartctl -i [PW] Added "help" argument to -v for smartctl [PW] Added -D, --showdirectives option to smartd [DG] add '-l selftest' capability for SCSI devices (update smartctl.8) [BA] smartd,smartctl: added additional Attribute modification option -v 220,temp and -v 9,temp. [PW] Renamed smartd option -X to -d START OF SMARTMONTOOLS 5.1 series smartmontools-5.0.50 [PW] Changed smartd.conf Directives -- see man page [BA/DG] Fixed uncommented comment in smartd.conf [DG] Correct 'Recommended start stop count' for SCSI devices [PW] Replaced smartd.conf directive -C with smartd option -i [PW] Changed options for smartctl -- see man page. [BA] Use strerror() to generate system call error messages. [BA] smartd: fflush() all open streams before fork(). [BA] smartctl, smartd simplified internal handling of checksums for simpler porting and less code. smartmontools-5.0.49 [PW] smartd --debugmode changed to --debug [BA] smartd/smartctl added attribute 230 Head Amplitude from IBM DPTA-353750. [PW] Added list of proposed new options for smartctl to README. [PW] smartd: ParseOpts() now uses getopt_long() if HAVE_GETOPT_LONG is defined and uses getopt() otherwise. This is controlled by CPPFLAGS in the Makefile. [BA] smartd: Fixed a couple of error messages done with perror() to redirect them as needed. smartmontools-5.0.48 [BA] smartctl: The -O option to enable an Immediate off-line test did not print out the correct time that the test would take to complete. This is because the test timer is volatile and not fixed. This has been fixed, and the smartctl.8 man page has been updated to explain how to track the Immediate offline test as it progresses, and to further emphasize the differences between the off-line immediate test and the self-tests. [BA] smartd/smartctl: Added new attribute (200) Multi_Zone_Error_Rate [BA] smartctl: modified so that arguments could have either a single - as in -ea or multiple ones as in -e -a. Improved warning message for device not opened, and fixed error in redirection of error output of HD identity command. [PW] smartd: added support for long options. All short options are still supported; see manpage for available long options. [BA] smartctl. When raw Attribute value was 2^31 or larger, did not print correctly. smartmontools-5.0.46 [BA] smartd: added smartd.conf Directives -T and -s. The -T Directive enables/disables Automatic Offline Testing. The -s Directive enables/disables Attribute Autosave. Documentation and example configuration file updated to agree. [BA] smartd: user can make smartd check the disks at any time (ie, interrupt sleep) by sending signal SIGUSR1 to smartd. This can be done for example with: kill -USR1 where is the process ID number of smartd. [EB] scsi: don't trust the data we receive from the drive too much. It very well might have errors (like zero response length). Seen on Megaraid logical drive, and verified in the driver source. [BA] smartd: added Directive -m for sending test email and for modifying email reminder behavior. Updated manual, and sample configuration file to illustrate & explain this. [BA] smartd: increased size of a continued smartd.conf line to 1023 characters. [BA] Simplified Directive parsers and improved warning/error messages. smartmontools-5.0.45 [EB] Fixed bug in smartd where testunitready logic inverted prevented functioning on scsi devices. The bug in question only affects smartd users with scsi devices. To see if your version of smartd has the testunitready() bug, do smartd -V If the version of the module smartd.c in a line like: Module: smartd.c revision: 1.66 date: 2002/11/17 has a revision greater than or equal to 1.30, and less than or equal to 1.64, then your version of the code has this problem. This problem affected releases starting with RELEASE_5_0_16 up to and including RELEASE_5_0_43. [BA] Added testunitnotready to smartctl for symmetry with smartd. [SB] added Czech descriptions to .spec file [SB] corrected comment in smartd.conf example [BA] Changed way that entries in the ATA error log are printed, to make it clearer which is the most recent error and which is the oldest one. NOTE: All changes made prior to this point were done by Bruce Allen [BA] although several of them had been suggested by earlier postings by Stanislav Brabec [SB]. smartmontools-5.0.43 Changed Temperature_Centigrade to Temperature_Celsius. The term "Centigrade" ceased to exist in 1948. (c.f http://www.bartleby.com/64/C004/016.html). smartmontools-5.0.42 Modified SCSI device check to also send warning emails if requested in directives file. Added a new smartd configuration file Directive: -M ADDRESS. This sends a single warning email to ADDRESS for failures or errors detected with the -c, -L, -l, or -f Directives. smartmontools-5.0.38 Modified perror() statements in atacmds.c so that printout for SMART commands errors is properly suppressed or queued depending upon users choices for error reporting modes. Added Italian descriptions to smartmontools.spec file. Started impementing send-mail-on-error for smartd; not yet enabled. Added -P (Permissive) Directive to smartd.conf file to allow SMART monitoring of pre-ATA-3 Rev 4 disks that have SMART but do not have a SMART capability bit. Removed charset encodings from smartmontools.spec file for non-English fields. smartmontools-5.0.32 Added manual page smartd.conf.5 for configuration file. smartctl: Missing ANSI prototype in failuretest(); fixed. smartctl: Checksum warnings now printed on stdout, or are silent, depending upon -q and -Q settings. smartmontools-5.0.31 Changed Makefile so that the -V option does not reflect file state before commit! smartctl: added new options -W, -U, and -P to control if and how the smartctl exits if an error is detected in either a SMART data structure checksum, or a SMART command returns an error. modified manual page to break options into slightly more logical categories. reformatted 'usage' message order to agree with man page ordering modified .spec file so that locale information now contains character set definition. Changed pt_BR to pt since we do not use any aspect other than language. See man setlocale. smartmontools-5.0.30 smartctl: added new options -n and -N to force device to be ATA or SCSI smartctl: no longer dies silently if device path does not start/dev/X smartctl: now handles arbitrary device paths smartmontools-5.0.29 Modified .spec file and Makefile to make them more compliant with the "right" way of doing things. smartmontools-5.0.26 Fixed typesetting error in man page smartd.8 Removed redundant variable (harmless) from smartd.c smartmontools-5.0.25 Added a new directive for the configuration file. If the word DEVICESCAN appears before any non-commented material in the configuration file, then the confi file will be ignored and the devices wil be scanned. smartmontools-5.0.24 Note: it has now been confirmed that the code modifications between 5.0.23 and 5.0.24 have eliminated the GCC 3.2 problems. Note that there is a GCC bug howerver, see #848 at http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?database=gcc&cmd=query Added new Directive for Configuration file: -C This sets the time in between disk checks to be seconds apart. Note that although you can give this Directive multiple times on different lines of the configuration file, only the final value that is given has an effect, and applies to all the disks. The default value of is 1800 sec, and the minimum allowed value is ten seconds. Problem wasn't the print format. F.L.W. Meunier <0@pervalidus.net> sent me a gcc 3.2 build and I ran it under a debugger. The problem seems to be with passing the very large (2x512+4) byte data structures as arguments. I never liked this anyway; it was inherited from smartsuite. So I've changed all the heavyweight functions (ATA ones, anyone) to just passing pointers, not hideous kB size structures on the stack. Hopefully this will now build OK under gcc 3.2 with any sensible compilation options. smartmontools-5.0.23 Because of reported problems with GCC 3.2 compile, I have gone thorough the code and explicitly changed all print format parameters to correspond EXACTLY to int unless they have to be promoted to long longs. To quote from the glibc bible: [From GLIBC Manual: Since the prototype doesn't specify types for optional arguments, in a call to a variadic function the default argument promotions are performed on the optional argument values. This means the objects of type char or short int (whether signed or not) are promoted to either int or unsigned int, as appropriate.] smartmontools-5.0.22 smartd, smartctl now warn if they find an attribute whose ID number does not match between Data and Threshold structures. Fixed nasty bug which led to wrong number of arguments for a varargs statement, with attendent stack corruption. Sheesh! Have added script to CVS attic to help find such nasties in the future. smartmontools-5.0.21 Eliminated some global variables out of header files and other minor cleanup of smartd. smartmontools-5.0.20 Did some revision of the man page for smartd and made the usage messages for Directives 100% consistent. smartmontools-5.0-19 smartd: prints warning message when it gets SIGHUP, saying that it is NOT re-reading the config file. smartctl: updated man page to say self-test commands -O,x,X,s,S,A appear to be supported in the code. [I can't test these, can anyone report?] smartmontools-5.0-18 smartctl: smartctl would previously print the LBA of a self-test if it completed, and the LBA was not 0 or 0xff...f However according to the specs this is not correct. According to the specs, if the self-test completed without error then LBA is undefined. This version fixes that. LBA value only printed if self-test encountered an error. smartmontools-5.0-17 smartd has changed significantly. This is the first CVS checkin of code that extends the options available for smartd. The following options can be placed into the /etc/smartd.conf file, and control the behavior of smartd. Configuration file Directives (following device name): -A Device is an ATA device -S Device is a SCSI device -c Monitor SMART Health Status -l Monitor SMART Error Log for changes -L Monitor SMART Self-Test Log for new errors -f Monitor for failure of any 'Usage' Attributes -p Report changes in 'Prefailure' Attributes -u Report changes in 'Usage' Attributes -t Equivalent to -p and -u Directives -a Equivalent to -c -l -L -f -t Directives -i ID Ignore Attribute ID for -f Directive -I ID Ignore Attribute ID for -p, -u or -t Directive # Comment: text after a hash sign is ignored \ Line continuation character cleaned up functions used for printing CVS IDs. Now use string library, as it should be. modified length of device name string in smartd internal structure to accomodate max length device name strings removed un-implemented (-e = Email notification) option from command line arg list. We'll put it back on when implemeneted. smartd now logs serious (fatal) conditions in its operation at loglevel LOG_CRIT rather than LOG_INFO before exiting with error. smartd used to open a file descriptor for each SMART enabled device, and then keep it open the entire time smartd was running. This meant that some commands, like IOREADBLKPART did not work, since the fd to the device was open. smartd now opens the device when it needs to read values, then closes it. Also, if one time around it can't open the device, it simply prints a warning message but does not give up. Have eliminated the .fd field from data structures -- no longer gets used. smartd now opens SCSI devices as well using O_RDONLY rather than O_RDWR. If someone can no longer monitor a SCSI device that used to be readable, this may well be the reason why. smartd never checked if the number of ata or scsi devices detected was greater than the max number it could monitor. Now it does. smartmontools-5.0-16 smartd on startup now looks in the configuration file /etc/smartd.conf for a list of devices which to include in its monitoring list. See man page (man smartd) for syntax. smartd: close file descriptors of SCSI device if not SMART capable Closes ALL file descriptors after forking to daemon. added new temperature attribute (231, temperature) smartd: now open ATA disks using O_RDONLY smartmontools-5.0-11 smartd now prints the name of a failed or changed attribute into logfile, not just ID number Changed name of -p (print version) option to -V Minor change in philosophy: if a SMART command fails or the device appears incapable of a SMART command that the user has asked for, complain by printing an error message, but go ahead and try anyway. Since unimplemented SMART commands should just return an error but not cause disk problems, this should't cause any difficulty. Added two new flags: q and Q. q is quiet mode - only print: For the -l option, errors recorded in the SMART error log; For the -L option, errors recorded in the device self-test log; For the -c SMART "disk failing" status or device attributes (pre-failure or usage) which failed either now or in the past; For the -v option device attributes (pre-failure or usage) which failed either now or in the past. Q is Very Quiet mode: Print no ouput. The only way to learn about what was found is to use the exit status of smartctl. smartctl now returns sensible values (bitmask). See smartctl.h for the values, and the man page for documentation. The SMART status check now uses the correct ATA call. If failure is detected we search through attributes to list the failed ones. If the SMART status check shows GOOD, we then look to see if their are any usage attributes or prefail attributes have failed at any time. If so we print them. Modified function that prints vendor attributes to say if the attribute has currently failed or has ever failed. -p option now prints out license info and CVS strings for all modules in the code, nicely formatted. Previous versions of this code (and Smartsuite) only generate SMART failure errors if the value of an attribute is below the threshold and the prefailure bit is set. However the ATA Spec (ATA4 <=Rev 4) says that it is a SMART failure if the value of an attribute is LESS THAN OR EQUAL to the threshold and the prefailure bit is set. This is now fixed in both smartctl and smartd. Note that this is a troubled subject -- the original SFF 8035i specification defining SMART was inconsistent about this. One section says that Attribute==Threshold is pass, and another section says it is fail. However the ATA specs are consistent and say Attribute==Threshold is a fail. smartd did not print the correct value of any failing SMART attribute. It printed the index in the attribute table, not the attribute ID. This is fixed. when starting self-tests in captive mode ioctl returns EIO because the drive has been busied out. Detect this and don't return an eror in this case. Check this this is correct (or how to fix it?) fixed possible error in how to determine ATA standard support for devices with no ATA minor revision number. device opened only in read-only not read-write mode. Don't need R/W access to get smart data. Check this with Andre. smartctl now handles all possible choices of "multiple options" gracefully. It goes through the following phases of operation, in order: INFORMATION, ENABLE/DISABLE, DISPLAY DATA, RUN/ABORT TESTS. Documentation has bee updated to explain the different phases of operation. Control flow through ataPrintMain() simplified. If reading device identity information fails, try seeing if the info can be accessed using a "DEVICE PACKET" command. This way we can at least get device info. Modified Makefile to automatically tag CVS archive on issuance of a release Modified drive detection so minor device ID code showing ATA-3 rev 0 (no SMART) is known to not be SMART capable. Now verify the checksum of the device ID data structure, and of the attributes threshold structure. Before neither of these structures had their checksums verified. New behavior vis-a-vis checksums. If they are wrong, we log warning messages to stdout, stderr, and syslog, but carry on anyway. All functions now call a checksumwarning routine if the checksum doesn't vanish as it should. Changed Read Hard Disk Identity function to get fresh info from the disk on each call rather than to use the values that were read upon boot-up into the BIOS. This is the biggest change in this release. The ioctl(device, HDIO_GET_IDENTITY, buf ) call should be avoided in such code. Note that if people get garbled strings for the model, serial no and firmware versions of their drives, then blame goes here (the BIOS does the byte swapping for you, apparently!) Function ataSmartSupport now looks at correct bits in drive identity structure to verify first that these bits are valid, before using them. Function ataIsSmartEnabled() written which uses the Drive ID state information to tell if SMART is enabled or not. We'll carry this along for the moment without using it. Function ataDoesSmartWork() guaranteed to work if the device supports SMART. Replace some numbers by #define MACROS Wrote Function TestTime to return test time associated with each different type of test. Thinking of the future, have added a new function called ataSmartStatus2(). Eventually when I understand how to use the TASKFILE API and am sure that this works correctly, it will replace ataSmartStatus(). This queries the drive directly to see if the SMART status is OK, rather than comparing thresholds to attribute values ourselves. But I need to get some drives that fail their SMART status to check it. smartmontools-5.0-10 Removed extraneous space before printing in some error messages Fixed additional typos in documentation Fixed some character buffers that were too short for their contents. smartmontools-5.0-9 Put project home path into all source files near the top Corrected typos in the documentation Modified Makefile so that Mandrake Cooker won't increment version number (unless they happen to be working on my machine, which I doubt!) smartmontools-5.0-8: For IBM disks whose raw temp data includes three temps. print all three print timestamps for error log to msec precision added -m option for Hitachi disks that store power on life in minutes added -L option for printing self-test error logs in -l option, now print power on lifetime, so that one can see when the error took place updated SMART structure definitions to ATA-5 spec added -p option added -f and -F options to enable/disable autosave threshold parameters changed argv parsing to use getops -- elminate buffer overflow vulnerability expanded and corrected documentation fixed problem with smartd. It did not actually call ataSmartEnable()! Since the argument was left out, the test always suceeded because it evaluated to a pointer to the function. smartd: closed open file descriptors if device does not support smart. Note: this still needs to be fixed for SCSI devices smartmontools-5.0-0 STARTED with smartsuite-2.1-2