Updated: smartmontools-6.4-1

Updated: smartmontools-6.4-1

[Christian Franke]

Version 6.4-1 of smartmontools is now available.

http://www.smartmontools.org/

Changes include:
- Device type '-d usbprolific' for Prolific PL2571/277x USB bridges.
- SAT: Support for ATA registers returned in fixed format sense data.
- smartctl '-i' and '--identify': ATA ACS-4 and SATA 3.2 enhancements.
- smartctl '-l xerror': Support for logs with more than 255 pages.
- smartctl '-l devstat': Prints ACS-3 DSN flags.
- smartctl '-l devstat': Read via SMART command if GP log is not
available.
- smartctl '-l scttempsts': Prints SCT SMART STATUS (ACS-4) and
   vendor specific SCT bytes.
- HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
- Windows: Device type '-d aacraid' for AACRAID controllers.
- Windows: SAT autodetection based on IOCTL_STORAGE_QUERY_PROPERTY.

For a full list of changes see NEWS and ChangeLog in
/usr/share/doc/smartmontools and ticket report at
http://www.smartmontools.org/query?milestone=Release+6.4

For open issues see
http://www.smartmontools.org/report

Description:

Smartmontools contains utility programs (smartctl, smartd) to
control/monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and
Reporting Technology System (SMART) built into most ATA/SATA and
SCSI/SAS hard drives and solid-state drives. 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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