Should now read
Page 1 - Erasure Status
Page 2 - Smart Data
Page 3 - Smart Data
and not as previously
Page 1 - Erasure Status
Smart Data - Page 2
Smart Data - Page 3
If the user had blanked the screen, the autopoweroff
and nowait options did not work. Instead they paused
nwipe on completion of the wipe/s waiting for the b
key to be pressed which reactivated compute_stats()
function who's output indicates whether any wipes were
still active.
This was fixed so that compute_stats() is always
active while wipes are in progress, so that the
nwipe_gui_status() function will exit when all wipe
threads have completed even if the screen has been
blanked.
Added mmcblk device type MMC
Changed log message from "USB bridge, no pass-through support" to "Smart data unavailable" as no smart data could be caused by a non USB device such as mmcblk as well as USB devices with no ATA pass through and other devices that smartctl does not detect.
Added the abbreviation MMC for mmcblk devices such as SD and
microSD cards and some low budget laptops.
Changed log message from "USB bridge, no pass-through support"
to "Smart data unavailable" as no smart data could be caused by
a non USB device such as mmcblk as well as USB devices with no ATA
pass through and other devices that smartctl does not detect.
The definition of the newly used _POSIX_SOURCE affects preprocessing of the time.h. As result on RHEL7 (possibly 6 as well) the timespec structure is not defined.
Move the definition of the off64_t using int64_t bellow the include stdint.h, which is actually defining it.
Without change wrong order is breaking the build on RHEL7/8/9.
The code that handles nwipe.conf now checks
an existing nwipe.conf for the correct default
groups. This allows future additions to the
nwipe.conf file to be added to an existing nwipe.conf
file. This makes the code more robust.
The code that handles creation of groups, settings and
values has been made into a function so any future additions
to nwipe.conf can be added with a single call to this function.
i.e
nwipe_conf_populate( "Default_Wipe.Method", "PRNG" );
The code can now handle creation of groups to a arbitrary
depth of four levels, however currently we only use a
group depth of 1.
i.e
CCC :
{
XXX :
{
YYY :
{
ZZZ :
{
};
TTT :
{
};
};
};
};
Fixed the following warning:
create_pdf.c:795:18: warning: ‘/nwipe_report_’ directive
output may be truncated writing 14 bytes into a region of
size between 1 and 4096 [-Wformat-truncation=]
The message that displays where the nwipe PDF certificate
is being saved was being printed multiple times in the
middle of the erasure summary table.
This was corrected so that it only prints once at the end
of the table.
Due to significant delays in obtaining drive temperature
from some drives especially SAS which was causing a noticeable
freeze of a second or two or more in the GUI wipe status
screen, being made worse the more drives that were being
simultaneously wiped.
The temperature update code was separated from the GUI code
by placing the temperature update in it's own thread.
The HPA message alternating with the drive model serial
number made reading the serial number quite a challenge
and made the display far too messy looking when displaying
20+ drives or even 10+ drives with differing HPA statuses.
Removed, alternating appearance.
Reduced size of message.
Placed after temperature, before drive model/serial in display.
Previously smart data was completely located
on page 2 in two columns using a variable width font.
This had two issues. The font size had to be very small
to fit on the page which made it difficult to read
and variable width fonts were used because the smart
attribute table took up too much width when all the data
was displayed in two newspaper type columns. This made the
smart attribute table look messy.
This patch now displays the smart data over page two and three
in mono spaced font and with a larger font size so it's easier
to read and the columns with the smart attribute table are now
aligned correctly.
In terms of the code, I placed the header and footer creation
code in it's own function as this is called multiple times
and will make it easier to add additional information pages
in the future.
Added new options in GUI config menu to display preview of
organisation, customer, date/time at startup prior to drive
selection. This preview is disabled as default but can be
enabled in the config menu.
The purpose of the preview is to allow the user to check &
update as required the organisation details, customer &
current date/time so that the details provided on the PDF
certificate/report are correct.
Some IDE USB adapter chipsets get the endian wrong for model name
This fix identifies a endian swapped model name and corrects it.
The function currently only includes Samsung but I'll add more IDE
drive manufacturers as I come across them.
This is peculiar to some USB IDE adapters. I've never seen this
issue with SATA, ATA drives connected directly to the motherboard.
