Drive Eraser 6.5.1 - Release notes

Features:

• 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-3484 - Adding pages on the PDF report.
• ALBUS-5197, ALBUS-5837 - Small UI fixes (user manual fonts, string localization).

Known issues & Recommendations:

• 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).
  • The machine cannot get an IP address.
  • We are investigating this issue.