Victoria

[Camel1965]

Victoria 5.28

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[Camel1965]

Victoria 5.29

November 27, 2020

• Victoria with Russian, English and Ukrainian translation.
• S.M.A.R.T. technology HDD / SSD in Russian and Ukrainian.
• Supports drives with M.2 / U.2 NVMe interface.

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[Camel1965]

Victoria for Windows 5.30

November 29, 2020

• Added an attempt to detect SMR technology in HDDs.
• SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) is a storage technology that usually degrades HDD performance and is therefore often hidden by manufacturers. The program makes an ATTEMPT to determine this feature using special algorithms, which do not yet guarantee a 100% result. At the same time, the tiled SMR indicator under the drive's passport panel lights up.
• Improved recognition of Seagate / Samsung STxxx series families for more accurate SMART display on them.
• Fixed a glitch in the help system that sometimes caused tabs to not switch.

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[Camel1965]

Victoria 5.31

December 1, 2020

• Added definition of werewolf hard drives. After the merger of technologies from Western Digital and HGST, dozens of models appeared on sale with the same article (model name on the sticker and in the passport), but different contents. In fact, these are WD drives with an HGST sticker and vice versa. An experimental algorithm has been added to the Victoria program, which allows you to find out the true "stuffing" of WD and HGST drives, regardless of the name in their passport. When "werewolves" are found, a message is displayed in the log.
• Improved detection of SMR technology on WD HDDs, including new Passport / Elements.
• Minor bugs fixed.

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[Camel1965]

Victoria 5.32

December 2, 2020

• Fixed a bug in the interaction of new functions with some HGST drives, which led to the blocking of the Smart Command Transport protocol.

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[Camel1965]

Victoria 5.33

December 8, 2020

• Added display of logical drive letters in the list of physical devices. The option is disabled by default. You can enable it in the "Settings" -> "API" section.
• Made getting the actual cache size on WD drives (including models disguised as HGST).
• Made getting some technical information on WD: production date, RAM size, number of disks and heads, number of zones, servo marks, exact rotation speed. It is displayed directly in the passport.
• Added storing the width of the middle column of the passport.
• In the drive's passport now, even in API mode, a self-diagnosis command for ATA devices is sent: 03 0C 00 4F C2 A0 EF. Moreover, now it is submitted even in the mode of a regular (not EXT) passport. This is necessary due to the manifestation of a strange error, either in the Windows 10 driver, or in the Asus m / s (the output buffer of the task file is not cleared somewhere, and there is no error on other PCs). I'll figure it out later. For now, I recommend not to disable this command in the settings - it initiates a channel with a screw in cases where a glitch may appear.
• Fixed a bug with the serial number on virtual disks (in the absence of S / N, the number from the previous drive was displayed).

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[Camel1965]

Victoria 5.34

December 8, 2020

• Added a filter for CD-ROM class devices so that their letters are not displayed by mistake in the list of API physical devices. In order to work with optical disks and their emulators in the program, you can set the "Display logical drives" checkbox in the "Settings" -> "Passport" menu.

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[Camel1965]

Victoria 5.35

December 15, 2020

• Fixed a bug that in some cases made it impossible to determine the serial number of SCSI and Flash drives.
• The "diagnostic command" checkbox has been removed in the passport settings. Yes, I know that command 03 ... EF is not intended for diagnostics at all But nothing better has been invented since 2004, and in API mode it does without registers, which is important for some USB bridges. As the mood will be, I’ll figure out which of the more modern to put in its place.
• "Interface check" in the EXT passport now works in API mode.
• In the settings of EXT-passports, the daws that are indispensable in API mode are now deactivated.
• Not all drives can get the temperature from the passport. Sometimes it is only available through SMART. Therefore, in this version, if there is no temperature in the passport, then it will be displayed on the panel at the SMART request. The temperature will also appear when you press the EXT-passport button on an SSD, NVMe, if the checkbox "find out the amount written to the SSD" is checked.
• Fixed a very strange bug. When switching from SMART to passport, the passport was requested a second time. Strange, because during the year of manifestation it never interfered. But a second passport is not needed either. I fixed it just in case.

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[Grandalf]

Victoria 5.36

What's new in version 5.36 :

"Evolution of new technologies"

• Through the log menu, now not the log itself opens, but the folder with it. The log itself is still opened by double-clicking on the window using the default Windows text editor.
• ! An attempt was made to fix a bug with freezing of some HGST models on versions 5.34 and 5.35 . For this purpose, the algorithm for detecting "drives-werewolves" has been changed, and the likelihood of WD technological commands getting into HGST has been significantly reduced.
• Rewrote procedure for detecting real HGSTs. Now it works via USB too. Even on bridges that block registers.
• I got an Apple computer where in the GPT partition table - CHS is not equal to 0/0/2 and the size is FFFFFFE instead of FFFFFFFF. Victoria's GPT parser did not recognize such a table. I had to finalize the program.
• ! Fixed error detected by WDxxxx-22xST0 and some others (old-type drives), which the program considered Seagates.
• Improved recognition of "real" Samsung under the guise of Seagate (but so far this is used only inside the program).
• ! It turned out that SCT-Ext commands do not work on old WDs, which is why their temperature was not displayed on the passport page. It was possible to switch the SCT mode manually in the settings, but I fixed it in the code.
• ! Fixed a bug with knocking down the size of passport columns after PCI-scan in PIO.
• At the request, it is possible NOT to change the working environment if the list of API devices has been updated (and it is also updated when USB drives are reconnected). The option is enabled by setting the checkbox on the "Settings" - "API" - "Do not reset settings when updating the list of devices" tab and is disabled by default. When this checkbox is activated, the following changes occur in the program behavior when updating the list of API devices and reconnecting USB drives, compared to previous versions: 1. The verification-read-write switch in the surface scan is not reset to the "read" position. 2.The SMART table and the log list are not cleared. 3. The HEX editor is not initialized. 4. End LBA is not restored to the maximum.
• ! In the previous version ( 5.35 ), the "interface check" function was activated. It soon became clear that some USB bridges "spoil the holiday" by displaying solid zeros instead of the data written to the buffer. Well, the program for the discrepancy - cursed. As usual, this is another joke from Seagate and their proprietary USB-bridge "Backup +". In the new version, the algorithm is improved and distinguishes such situations from real interface faults.
• The logic of the buttons for obtaining a "clean" and "extended" passport has been put in order: additional functions, such as SCT temperature, detection of "werewolves" and SMR-drives, have been switched to the "EXT" button, and the ability to NOT send to the drive has been returned to the "Passport" button nothing extra. However, to preserve compatibility and habits - the old version is left by default, which can be changed to a new one in the "Settings" - "Passport" menu .
• ! Fixed bugs that could worsen the stability of the program when performing various actions.

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[Camel1965]

Victoria HDD/SSD 5.37

What's new in version 5.37:

During the summer, various little things slowly improved, but managed to lose the list of changes. A bunch of events led to interruptions in the work on the program. And I can't remember everything. So you have to write off this loss "to coronavirus" and continue to work further.
Added support for SAS / SCSI drives:
⦁ SCSI and SAS and SAS tires detect - Displays an indication on the passport panel;
⦁ Starting / stop control of SCSI / SAS devices by real commands "Start Unit" and "Stop Unit";
⦁ Reading temperature logs;
⦁ Reading the internal name of the branded screw model;
⦁ Getting a copyright of the manufacturer;
⦁ Getting a serial number of SCSI devices is given in accordance with the standard.
Began to make the receipt of s.m.a.r.t. For SAS / SCSI drives. They contain many logs from which you can dial data similar to the SMART attributes of ATA devices. The first steps were taken - receiving the "health status" HDD with its decoding, temperatures, time of operation and other parameters. While this feature is experimental, without supporting the base, without translation and without saving into files. Next time I will try to improve and add the dissection of defect tables.
If the SCSI / SAS theme interests users, it is possible to further develop the program in this direction.
Added SAS / SCSI temperature and NVME-drives when requesting a passport.
Some improvements are made in the algorithm for finding the screws-isorted. It is not yet completely, but reliability can improve and the problem of hanging will be solved. If there are complaints - the function of the detect is a weaker will have to do the disabled.
The health analysis of "Health" of HDD by Smart has been made. The so-called "smart-status" reported by the drive itself - is often excessively optimistic (clearly defective HDD reports status = good). On the "Settings" tab -> Smart there is a choice of method. By default, it is now software. This rather simple algorithm checks several attributes relating to defects. A version of the "Unideal" status appeared - for drives, the state of which is not ideally for SMART, but also without serious problems. Over time, the algorithm will improve. Well, as a result, the problem with USB drives, which do not give status.
It was so that the speed on the graph is displayed when crossing the mouse pointer with a line, plus-minus some tolerance. If the pointer is far from schedule - the maximum registered speed of the already built points is displayed. The result was better than, however, it works only with the reading schedule and I don't like it yet. Then I will do better. Anyway, the schedule needs serious recycling.
The Ctrl + A. key combination. Now instead of reference "About the Program", it serves to quickly highlight the block in the "editor".
The editor has buttons for saving content to the file (download) and download to the data editor from the file (UPLOAD). The file can be up to 64 KB, but when you try to write from the editor to disk - only one sector is recorded, the number of which is listed in the editor.
When rewroring the sector in the editor - now a record of rewriting with the sector number is added to the Log.
The sector save button on the disk ("Save") - now blocked until the user clicks the Open button. This is done so that the user does not accidentally start the partition table with an empty content content.
If another drive is selected, the Save button is also deactivated.
When changing the drive, the partition table is now cleared (so as not to remain from the previous one).
Added detection of HDD Seagate families. Internal name (Alias) is displayed in the passport and sometimes a shopping pseudonym (eg 7200.11). This is useful for accurate HDD identification inside the computer, for the selection of donors and so on.
Added support for Spanish (Spanish - Colombia). Thanks to Carlos Medina, who did and sent a translation file.
Lucky In the Graphics menu, a lock cleaning is entered during its construction. Another absurd has become less.
Lucky Fixed glitch when the scan is over, and negative numbers remained on the table.
Lucky Fixed a bug due to which the number of integrated physical heads on WD was incorrectly determined.
Lucky Fixed "Integer Overflow" error in SCSI mode when connected via USB-oscittal.
Lucky Fixed "Error 103" arising when creating a log if there are invalid characters in the model name.
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