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Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: smartmontools-5.39-1
From: "Christian Franke" <Christian DOT Franke AT t-online DOT de>
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Version 5.39-1 of smartmontools has been uploaded.

http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Changes include:
- Support for USB devices with Cypress, JMicron and Sunplus USB bridges
- USB device type autodetection for some devices, see
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/Supported_USB-Devices
- smartctl option '-l xerror' to print ATA SMART Extended Comprehensive
  Error Log
- smartctl option '-l xselftest' to print ATA SMART Extended
  Self-test Log
- smartctl option '-l sataphy' to print SATA Phy Event Counters
- smartctl option '-l sasphy' to print SAS device phy information
- smartctl options '-l gplog,...' and '-l smartlog,...' to print any
  log page
- smartctl option '-x' to print all extended info if available
  (The above require IOCTL_ATA_PASS_THROUGH in driver or 48-bit
   pass-through support in USB bridge)
- smartctl prints SCSI load/unload cycle counts
- Improve display of huge raw values of some SMART attributes
- Option '-v ID,RAW_FORMAT,ATTR_NAME' to add new vendor specific
  attributes
- Support for SSD drives using 64-bit raw attributes
- Many additions to drive database
- New simplified syntax for drive database
- Drive database read from file
  (/usr/share/smartmontools/drivedb.h, /etc/smart_drivedb.h)
- smartd can now handle attributes 197 and 198 with increasing raw
  values
- smartd logs changes of self-test execution status
- smartd directive '-n powermode,N' to limit the number of skipped
  checks
- smartd flag '!' for '-r' and '-R' directives to log changes as
  critical
- smartd supports scheduled Selective Self-Tests
- Self-tests scheduled during system downtime or disk standby are run
  after next startup
- smartd stores internal state until next startup
  (/var/lib/smartmontools/smartd.MODEL-SERIAL.ata.state)
- smartd option '-A PREFIX' to log attributes at each check cycle

For a full list of changes see NEWS and CHANGELOG in
/usr/share/doc/smartmontools
Please read the Windows and Cygwin sections in the files
INSTALL and WARNINGS.
For open issues see
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/report/1


Description:

Smartmontools contains utility programs (smartctl, smartd) to
control/monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and
Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.) built into most modern ATA
and SCSI disks. In many cases, these utilities will provide advanced
warning of disk degradation and failure.

Smartctl is a command line utility designed to perform tasks such as
printing the SMART self-test and error logs, enabling and disabling
SMART automatic testing, and initiating device self-tests.

Smartd is a daemon that monitors the drives every 30 minutes
(configurable), logs SMART errors and changes of SMART Attributes via
the syslog interface.
Smartd can also be configured to schedule self-tests and send email
warnings or run other scripts if problems are detected.
On Cygwin, smartd can be run as a windows service via cygrunsrv.

Christian Franke

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