ALBUS-5480 - Advanced report mode for reporting self-monitoring attributes from drives.
The Report-step has an Advanced mode where the drives' self-monitoring attributes (SMART data) are displayed (both in the UI and in the corresponding PDF report).
This will allow a better drive grading before/after the erasure takes place. For SATA/SCSI/SAS drives.
Bug fixes/Improvements:
ALBUS-5480 - Advanced report mode for reporting self-monitoring attributes from drives.
The Report-step has an Advanced mode where the drives' self-monitoring attributes (SMART data) are displayed (both in the UI and in the corresponding PDF report).
This will allow a better drive grading before/after the erasure takes place. For SATA/SCSI/SAS drives.
ALBUS-5802 - The hardware appliance could not boot after erasing faulty FC drives.
Reproduced on an E800 appliance. The internal preferences were corrupted.
ALBUS-5707 - The software crashed in Automatic process and continued in Manual process.
The root cause was identified and fixed under ALBUS-5796.
ALBUS-5796 - Continuing the improvements of the internal XML communication between the BDE UI, its back-end and the BMC. This results in an overall more stable software.
These improvements should potentially fix two other tickets (ALBUS-5499 and ALBUS-5727).
ALBUS-5817 - Sending a report to Management Console 4.7.0 (or the latest Blancco Cloud) failed consistently.
Importing a saved XML report into the Management Console 4.6.1 and 4.7.0 failed consistently.
This occurs with BDE 6.5.0 only.
ALBUS-5821 - Improving the detection and reporting of the screen resolution on Portable, Notebook, Hand Held, All In One and Sub Notebook machines.
ALBUS-5592 - HP zBook 15 G3 could not be booted with BDE 6.4.0 or lower.
Also fixed in 6.5.0. Booting BDE with "Normal startup (safe resolution)" works and the machine can be erased.
ALBUS-5631 - SAS drives were detected as SPI (Seagate drives behind a LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1068E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS controller).
Also fixed in 6.5.0.
ALBUS-5815 - The UI showed a popup offering an update on some Blancco hardware appliances. Unwanted behavior.
As a general note, do not attempt to update the UI (the correct way to update it is to reinstall the appliance).
ALBUS-5810 - Improving the SMART detection and reporting, fetching additional Log Pages from SCSI-based drives.
ALBUS-5855, ALBUS-5843 - BDE 6.5.0 cannot communicate with old BMC 3.3.x or lower.
It is strongly recommended to upgrade to newer BMC versions 3.5.x or higher.
Contact the Blancco Support for more information.
ALBUS-5853, ALBUS-5854 - There are some issues supporting some network interface cards (mainly PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller from Realtek Semiconductor).
Blancco Drive Eraser version 6.5.1 has been released!
Drive Eraser 6.5.1 - Release notes
Features:
Bug fixes/Improvements:
Known issues & Recommendations: