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Drive Eraser 6.7.0 / Configuration Tool 2.6.0 - Release notes


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Important: Due to a new report digital signature, the Blancco Drive Eraser releases v6.6.0 and higher are not compatible with the Blancco Management Console 4.7.1 or lower (report importing and sending will fail consistently).

  • If you are using a local BMC and want to upgrade to BDE 6.6.0 or higher, please upgrade first to BMC 4.8.0 or higher.
  • If you are using the Blancco Cloud, it is fully compatible with BDE 6.6.0 and higher.
  • The BMC 4.8.0 and higher are fully compatible with all BDE releases (< 6.6.0 and >= 6.6.0).

Features:

  • ALBUS-6002 - Improving the detection of faulty drives / Hotplug timeout.
    • In case Blancco Drive Eraser - BDE is used to erase loose drives, there is a new setting "Hotplug timeout" to set the timeout before the detection of a newly plugged drive is stopped.
    • Faulty drives are particularly slow to detect and this timeout will help to spot them before they compromise the stability of the softwareConfigurable timeout to detect a hotplugged drive. Can help to spot faulty drives more easily.
  • ALBUS-5249, ALBUST-469 - Hardware diagnostics: Webcam.
    • BDE offers a new New hardware diagnostic for the webcam.The user will be able to take snapshots to check the webcam condition.
  • ALBUS-5495, ALBUST-476 - Detect and erase attached flash devices.
    • BDE can now detect The software warns the user in case flash devices connected to a machine (e.g. SD card in a laptop, USB stick plugged to the motherboard of a server, etc.).
    • When detected, BDE will show a popup recommending to remove those devices that can contain user data.
    • Flash devices SD cards, USB sticks) are detected. They can also be erased if this feature the setting is enabled in Drive Eraser Configuration Tool.
  • ALBUS-6003 - Two-way communication: job specification on the drive level.
    • The Two-Way Communication allows the customer's Asset Management System - AMS to send customized erasure settings (job specification) to BDE (through the Blancco Management Console - BMC).This process has been expanded to loose drives: the AMS can send customized erasure settings to loose drives connected to an erasure station.
  • ALBUS-6025 - Two-way communication: show the completed process without turning off the asset.Before, a machine running BDE with the "Two-Way Communication" was turned off at the end of the erasure process.
    • The job specification can now be configured to let the machine turned on (idling) after a completed process.
  • ALBUS-3841, ALBUST-80 - Time zone support for reports.
    • BDE has time zone support for reports. This is important to prevent time discrepancies in case the machine running BDE and the machine running BMC are in different time zones.In addition to thisAlso, the date/time/time zone are shown beside the icons in the BDE user interface.
  • ALBUS-6001, ALBUST-475 - Support for Slovak language.
    • New language support, the user interface is now translated in Slovak.


Bug fixes/Improvements:

  • ALBUS-6126 - Improving the execution of the Sanitize Overwrite command on SAS HDDs.
  • ALBUS-5853 - Support for the RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller.
  • ALBUS-5087 - SATA drives behind PERC H700 Integrated MegaRAID SAS controller were not properly detected and erased.
  • ALBUS-5536 - Drives behind Adaptec ServeRAID 8k/8k-l8 controllers were not being detected at all.
  • ALBUS-6007 - Drives connected first were occasionally duplicated in the UI whereas drives connected afterwards were not detected.
  • ALBUS-5890, ALBUS-5909 - Better handling of special characters in custom fields and customer/operator fields.
  • ALBUS-6084 - Improvements to prevent displaying and erasing the internal SSD.
  • ALBUS-6093 - A verification following a firmware-based erasure could get stuck on low capacity drives (less than 16GB).
  • ALBUS-6113 - Exporting reports from the embedded BMC to a USB stick failed.
  • ALBUS-6146 - Adding additional erasure details in the report (on images having a special customization).
  • ALBUS-6153 - The erasure progress got stuck at 0% when a 100% verification was selected (6.7alpha releases only).
  • ALBUS-5070 - Some CD and DVD readers failed the optical read test if an erasure was running.
  • ALBUS-5684 -The battery test was successful even if no voltage was detected.
  • ALBUS-5953 - Laptop battery was still detected even after being removed (occurred on HP EliteBook 820 G3).
  • ALBUS-6098 -In case of a verification failure, the number of processed sectors was sometimes not updated.
  • ALBUS-6047 - Fixing the support of Intel's VPRO technology (remote booting was failing).
  • ALBUS-5862 - Dell Precision 5520 could not be booted.
  • ALBUS-4805 - The touchpad could not be used as a button or for scrolling.
  • ALBUS-6012, ALBUS-6011, ALBUS-6010, ALBUS-4730 - Small fixes in the user interface (missing localizations in the UI and report, small glitches when erasing partitions).
  • ALBUS-5709 - On some machines, the SD card was detected as an eMMC and the normal drive (HDD, SSD) was duplicated in the report.
  • ALBUS-5096 - The focus was not on the first custom field in case the Customer and Operator legacy fields were disabled.
  • ALBUS-4716 - The battery test was successful even if the capacity ratio was above 100%.
  • ALBUS-6199 - There was a misleading message in the UI (BMC icon) if the BMC credentials were wrong.
  • ALBUS-5210 - A message is displayed at boot time in case the memory test is enabled and running.
  • ALBUS-6051 - The option to save "PDF only" reports has been removed. Choose the option "XML+PDF" instead.
  • ALBUST-455 - Unifying the way numerical settings are handled in BDECT.


Known issues:

  • ALBUS-6126, ALBUS-6142 - HP MM1000JEFRB SAS disks behind a HPE Smart Array P408i-a disappear after a Sanitize Overwrite command.
  • ALBUS-6166 - Wireless connectivity does not work on Dell Precision 5520.
  • ALBUS-6210 - Disk IDs in the erasure view can occasionally be mixed up if flash devices are detected.


Recommendations:

ALBUS-5884, ALBUS-5969, ALBUS-5793 - Several HP Zbook models cannot boot BDE unless the booting parameter "nouveau.modeset=0" is entered.