Changes between Version 75 and Version 76 of FAQ


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Apr 8, 2020, 6:45:04 PM (4 years ago)
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Christian Franke
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    168168This is a bug in Intel 330 Firmware 300i and Intel 520 Firmware 400i.
    169 The offset is [https://communities.intel.com/message/273981#273981 894794 hours].
    170 See also ticket #289 and [http://www.intel.com/support/ssdc/hpssd/sb/CS-034131.htm Intel SSD Toolbox SMART Attributes FAQ].
     169The offset is [https://forums.intel.com/s/question/0D50P0000490BxaSAE/why-my-new-ssd-drive-intel-520-120gb-shows-that-already-worked-power-on-time894813- 894794 hours].
     170See also ticket #289 and [https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000006400/memory-and-storage/ssd-software.html Intel SSD Toolbox SMART Attributes FAQ].
    171171The hours counter from Device Statistics is not affected:
    172172{{{
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    459459
    460460As a workaround, run some tool or script which perform periodic low volume read accesses.
    461 See [http://sourceforge.net/p/smartmontools/mailman/message/32461042/ this thread]
     461See [https://sourceforge.net/p/smartmontools/mailman/message/32461042/ this thread]
    462462on smartmontools-support mailing list for an example.
    463463
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    470470be run from a MS-DOS boot disk.
    471471
    472 The [http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ UBCD (Ultimate Boot CD)]
     472The [https://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ UBCD (Ultimate Boot CD)]
    473473includes most of these disk-testing utilities and many other useful
    474474diagnostic tools ready to boot from CD or USB memory stick.
    475 Recent UBCD releases contain [http://partedmagic.com/ Parted Magic] which contains smartctl and
    476 GSmartControl, see the [wiki:LiveCDs List of Live CDs/DVDs] for further info.
    477475
    478476Note: if you do run one of these utilities, and it identifies the
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    541539=== {{{smartctl}}} aborts with the message "...SMART_GET_VERSION failed" on Windows. What is going wrong? ===
    542540
    543 A failing [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff566202.aspx SMART_GET_VERSION] call means that the device driver does not implement the I/O controls (see [wiki:FAQ#OnWindowssmartctlprintsthemessage:...LogReadfailed:Functionnotimplemented below]) to access ATA SMART functionality.
     541A failing [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/hardware/drivers/ff566202%28v%3dvs.85%29 SMART_GET_VERSION] call means that the device driver does not implement the I/O controls (see [wiki:FAQ#OnWindowssmartctlprintsthemessage:...LogReadfailed:Functionnotimplemented below]) to access ATA SMART functionality.
    544542
    545543Some Windows drivers for (S)ATA controllers are implemented as SCSI class drivers. This is usually the case for drivers which support RAID. Unfortunately, such drivers do not support the ATA specific SMART I/O controls.
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    559557To access ATA SMART functionality on Windows, smartmontools uses the
    560558I/O control calls
    561 [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff566204.aspx SMART_RCV_DRIVE_DATA] and
    562 [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff566206.aspx SMART_SEND_DRIVE_CMD].
     559[https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/hardware/device-stage/drivers/ff566204%28v%3dvs.85%29 SMART_RCV_DRIVE_DATA] and
     560[https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/hardware/device-stage/drivers/ff566206%28v%3dvs.85%29 SMART_SEND_DRIVE_CMD].
    563561These calls were available since Win95 OSR2.
    564562An example program from Microsoft can be found
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    573571[ftp://ftp.heise.de/pub/ct/listings/0207-218.zip here],
    574572a related newsgroup thread is
    575 [http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.development.device.drivers/browse_frm/thread/e9763262823e11d1 here].
     573[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/microsoft.public.development.device.drivers/6XYyYoI-EdE here].
    576574
    577575Unfortunately, these undocumented functions are not implemented in
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    580578
    581579A new I/O control call
    582 [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff559309.aspx IOCTL_ATA_PASS_THROUGH]
     580[https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/ddi/ntddscsi/ni-ntddscsi-ioctl_ata_pass_through IOCTL_ATA_PASS_THROUGH]
    583581is available since Win2003 and XP SP2.
    584582It should be supported by most new drivers. Experimental code using
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    666664
    667665Please verify these using the
    668  * [http://sourceforge.net/p/smartmontools/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/www/SmartmontoolsSigningKey_2017.txt Smartmontools GPG Signing Key (2017-2018)]
    669  * [http://sourceforge.net/p/smartmontools/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/www/SmartmontoolsSigningKey_2015.txt Smartmontools GPG Signing Key (2015-2016)]
    670  * [http://sourceforge.net/p/smartmontools/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/www/SmartmontoolsSigningKey_2012.txt Smartmontools GPG Signing Key (2013-2014)]
    671  * [http://sourceforge.net/p/smartmontools/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/www/SmartmontoolsSigningKey_2010.txt Smartmontools GPG Signing Key (2010-2012)]
    672  * [http://sourceforge.net/p/smartmontools/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/www/SmartmontoolsSigningKey_2005.txt Smartmontools GPG Signing Key (2005-2006)]
    673  * [http://sourceforge.net/p/smartmontools/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/www/SmartmontoolsSigningKey.txt Smartmontools GPG Signing Key (2003-2004)]
     666 * [https://sourceforge.net/p/smartmontools/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/www/SmartmontoolsSigningKey_2019.txt Smartmontools GPG Signing Key (2019-2020)]
     667 * [https://sourceforge.net/p/smartmontools/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/www/SmartmontoolsSigningKey_2017.txt Smartmontools GPG Signing Key (2017-2018)]
     668 * [https://sourceforge.net/p/smartmontools/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/www/SmartmontoolsSigningKey_2015.txt Smartmontools GPG Signing Key (2015-2016)]
     669 * [https://sourceforge.net/p/smartmontools/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/www/SmartmontoolsSigningKey_2012.txt Smartmontools GPG Signing Key (2013-2014)]
     670 * [https://sourceforge.net/p/smartmontools/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/www/SmartmontoolsSigningKey_2010.txt Smartmontools GPG Signing Key (2010-2012)]
     671 * [https://sourceforge.net/p/smartmontools/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/www/SmartmontoolsSigningKey_2005.txt Smartmontools GPG Signing Key (2005-2006)]
     672 * [https://sourceforge.net/p/smartmontools/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/www/SmartmontoolsSigningKey.txt Smartmontools GPG Signing Key (2003-2004)]
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    709708interfere with the regular operation of the disk. If you have this
    710709problem, here is a link to an
    711 [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-42215.html IBM DeskStar hard disk drive firmware update].
     710[http://haque.net/dtla_update/ IBM DeskStar hard disk drive firmware update].
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    718717[//browser/branches/RELEASE_5_26_WIN32_BRANCH/sm5 RELEASE_5_26_WIN32_BRANCH] and has been merged to the CVS trunk later.
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    720 The [http://www.cygwin.com/ Cygwin] or [http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS MSYS] environment can be used to build Windows (using [http://www.mingw.org/ MinGW]) versions of {{{smartctl}}} and {{{smartd}}}.
    721 Installation instructions for binary distributions can be found [//wiki/Download#InstalltheWindowspackage here].
     719The [https://www.cygwin.com/ Cygwin] or [https://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS MSYS] environment can be used to build Windows (using [http://www.mingw.org/ MinGW]) versions of {{{smartctl}}} and {{{smartd}}}.
     720Installation instructions for binary distributions can be found [wiki:Download#InstalltheWindowspackage here].
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