-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-6282 2013-04-22 23:39:18 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : smartmontools Product : Fedora 18 Version : 6.1 Release : 1.fc18 URL : http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Summary : Tools for monitoring SMART capable hard disks Description : The smartmontools package contains two utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems using the Self- Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (SMART) built into most modern ATA and SCSI hard disks. In many cases, these utilities will provide advanced warning of disk degradation and failure. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: - smartctl prints ATA Additional Product Id (OEM Id). - smartctl prints more info for SCSI devices: media rotation rate, form factor, physical block size, lowest LBA alignement, logical block provisioning, disk protection type and selftest progress status. - smartctl '--identify' updated for latest ATA ACS-3 spec. - smartd DEVICESCAN ignores devices already specified. - Support of larger SCSI defect lists via READ DEFECT(12). - Device type '-d usbjmicron,p' for Prolific USB bridges. - Many HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database. - Linux: Support for SAS disks behind Areca controllers. - Linux: Improved support for SATA disks on LSI/Megaraid controllers - Linux: disks on MegaRaid controllers are automatically scanned -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Apr 22 2013 Michal Hlavinka <[email protected]> - 1:6.1-1 - smartmontools updated to 6.1 * Thu Jan 10 2013 Michal Hlavinka <[email protected]> - 1:6.0-2 - bump release for rebuild * Thu Oct 11 2012 Michal Hlavinka <[email protected]> - 1:6.0-1 - smartmontools updated to 6.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update smartmontools' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
