============================================================================== Portlock Storage Manager Portlock Software www.portlock.com ============================================================================== Copyright (c) 2000-2006 Portlock Software. All rights reserved. ============================================================================== Release history for Portlock Storage Manager ============================================================================== What's New in Release 3.36 (March-13-2006) ********************************************************************** New Features: ********************************************************************** 1) Support for NetWare 6.5 SP4, SP4A and SP5. ********************************************************************** Misc Features: ********************************************************************** 1) Added command line option: -compression. Refer to the readme.txt. ********************************************************************** Bugs Fixed: ********************************************************************** 1) Fixed the issue "Error: NULL compression working buffer". 2) Fixed the issue with incorrectly reporting the system IP address when running under Linux. ********************************************************************** Notes: ********************************************************************** 1) Do not use emm386.exe in config.sys for the DOS version of Portlock Storage Manager. We have seen so many issues with this memory manager that we have removed the need for emm386.exe. 2) MEGA4_XX.HAM drivers. The 6.x version of these drivers have a problem in the interrupt code. If used with Storage Manager the server will abend. Use version 3.09 or 7.0.4 or later of these drivers. The PEDGE2.HAM and PEDGE3.HAM are Dell versions of this driver. 3) EMC SANS. Some EMC configurations use the POWPATH.CDM. This CDM provides virtual drive support to redundant fibre channel paths. Storage Manager does not access CDMs and instead goes directly to the HAM drivers. This may result in multiple instances being displayed for the same device. The solution is to unload the POWPATH.CDM driver, configure the QLogic Fibre Channel drivers to not include redundant paths. Then reboot the server. Once the storage management operations have been completed, return the server to the standard EMC configuration. 4) IBM Netfinity ASPI RAID DOS Driver. The is an issue with Storage Manager and the DOS ASPI RAID driver. Do not load the IBM DOS ASPI driver for the IBM RAID controllers. Storage Manager will access the RAID controller correctly without the DOS ASPI driver. 5) Compaq ASPI driver FWS2ASPI.SYS version 2.06. This ASPI driver is not compatible with other ASPI drivers. To use Compaq ASPI drivers with other ASPI drivers use version 2.05. If another ASPI driver is installed with the Compaq driver version 2.06 Storage Manager will not be able to see the Compaq driver. ********************************************************************** Known Limitation in this version: ********************************************************************** Most of these limitations will be removed in future releases of PortlockStorage Manager. Check our web site, as we often release improved versions of Storage Manager. http://www.portlock.com ********************************************************************** Limitations for all versions of NetWare: ********************************************************************** 1) NetWare Cluster Services is not supported. You will need to stop Novell Cluster Services before modifying Partitions / Pools. 2) ATAPI (IDE) Tape drives are not supported under DOS. Only under NetWare. 3) Portlock Storage Manager can image partitions in an Extended DOS partition. However, these partitions can only be restored as Primary partitions and not restored into Extended DOS partitions. 4) HP DVD 300i. The Storage Manager DVD format command does not work with this model. Until we fix this, insert formatted DVD media. The HP Windows tools will format DVDs or have the Windows tools write anything to the DVD will force a format. 5) DOS partitions can not be resized in-place. DOS partitions can be resized during a partition copy. 6) DOS partitions can not be resized during a restore. 7) Can not restore an image from a Mac OS X FTP Server. This FTP server does not like absolute paths in the FTP SIZE command. ********************************************************************** Limitations for NetWare 3.x: ********************************************************************** 1) None (except see limitations for all versions of NetWare). ********************************************************************** Limitations for NetWare 4.x: ********************************************************************** 1) None (except see limitations for all versions of NetWare). ********************************************************************** Limitations for NetWare 5.x: ********************************************************************** 1) Early versions of NSS are not supported. The minimum requirement is NetWare 5.0 SP4. 2) For NSS versions earlier than version 2.97 (NetWare 5.1 SP3), the server sometimes needs to be rebooted to see NSS partitions created with Storage Manager. There is a partition re-scanning bug with NetWare that was fixed in NW51 SP3. 3) The image command can image an NSS multi-segment Storage Group volume. The restore command can only restore this NSS volume as a single segment. Storage Manager will convert the multi-segment volume into a single segment volume during the restore. 4) The NSS volume resize command can not resize a Storage Group volume. 5) The NSS volume resize command can not resize NSS volumes smaller. However, NSS Volume Copy, NSS Volume Restore, and NSS Partition Convert commands do support resizing NSS volumes smaller. 6) NetWare 5 NSS mirroring is not supported. Traditional partition mirroring is supported. 7) Portlock Storage Manager does not support NSS volumes created inside a Traditional NetWare volume. 8) When copying an NSS Non-Storage Group Partition to a new Non-Storage Group partition, resizing the volume smaller during the copy is not supported. Copy the partition to a Storage Group to enable resizing the partition smaller during the copy. 9) When copying an NSS Non-Storage Group Volume to a new Non-Storage Group Volume, resizing the volume smaller during the copy is not supported. Copy the partition to a Storage Group to enable resizing the volume smaller during the copy. 10) Portlock Storage Manager can not move the starting position of an NSS partition. 11) NSS Storage Group Partition Copy is not supported. The current workaround is to copy the individual NSS volumes using the Volume Copy command. ********************************************************************** Limitations for NetWare 6.0: ********************************************************************** 1) The Resize Pool command does not support multi-segment pools. 2) The Resize Pool command does not support resizing pools smaller. 3) The Copy Pool command does not support copying pools smaller. However, the Copy Volume command does support volume copy to a smaller pool. 4) The Move Pool command does not support moving pools and reducing their size during the move. 5) Can not resize a NetWare Master Partition. 6) Can not resize NetWare Traditional partitions located within a NetWare Master Partition. 7) Can not resize NetWare NSS partitions located within a NetWare Master Partition. Use the Pool Resize command instead. 8) Can not resize a NetWare 6 volume within a Pool. Use Novell's NSSMU to change the Quota for this type of volume. 9) The Win32 program remote.exe (which is a keyboard and screen capture program) does not work on NetWare 6.0 servers. ********************************************************************** Limitations for NetWare 6.5: ********************************************************************** 1) USB Storage devices are not supported. 2) Software Mirroring is not supported. 3) Software RAID-5 is not supported. 4) The Resize Pool command does not support multi-segment pools. 5) The Resize Pool command does not support resizing pools smaller. 6) The Copy Pool command does not support copying pools smaller. However, the Copy Volume command does support volume copy to a smaller pool. 7) The Move Pool command does not support moving pools and reducing their size during the move. 8) Can not resize a NetWare Master Partition. 9) Can not resize NetWare Traditional partitions located within a NetWare Master Partition. 10) Can not resize NetWare NSS partitions located within a NetWare Master Partition. Use the Pool Resize command instead. 11) Can not resize a NetWare 6 volume within a Pool. Use Novell's NSSMU to change the Quota for this type of volume. 12) The Win32 program remote.exe (which is a keyboard and screen capture program) does not work on NetWare 6.5 servers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.35 (August-20-2005) ********************************************************************** New Features: ********************************************************************** 1) Preliminary support for NetWare 6.5 SP4 Build 624. 2) NetWare 6.5. Added Online Imaging. NSS Pools can now be imaged while they are active with mounted volumes. This support is only available for NetWare 6.5 SP2 with patch N65NSS2b or SP3 and later. A Pool to store the snapshot data is required (no volumes are required in this pool). This pool should be approximately 5% - 20% of the other pools total used space. 3) NetWare 6.5. The Image and Restore commands now use the 64-bit file APIs. Image files larger than 2 GB are now supported when writing to NSS file systems. Image Spanning is turned off by default when writing to NSS volumes. 4) Pool Restore. More than 4 pools can now be restored to a single device. When possible the existing NetWare 6 Master Partition is resized to hold the new pools instead of creating a new NetWare 6 Master Partition for each pool restored. 5) Pool Restore. A Hotfix area is no longer created during a Pool Restore for NetWare 6.5. The partition Hotfix area is optional for NetWare 6.0 but it is not recommended for NetWare 6.5. 6) Added SCSI tape support to the Portlock Linux Boot CD and the Portlock Storage Manager Linux version. 7) Added SCSI changer support to the Portlock Linux Boot CD and the Portlock Storage Manager DOS and Linux versions. ********************************************************************** Misc Features: ********************************************************************** 1) New command line option: -online 2) New command line option: -skip_pool=pool_name 2) New command line option: -snapshot=pool_name 3) New command line option: -tape_fixed 4) New command line option: -tape_variable 5) New command line option: -noluns (DOS Only) The following applies to DOS only: Previous version did no scan LUNS 1 - 7 by default. In order to support SCSI Changers where the Tape is at LUN 0 and the Changer is at LUN 1, LUN scanning is now enabled by default. 6) Portlock Storage Manager now includes the product version number in the image. This is to warn about using an older version of Portlock Storage Manager than the version that created the image. 7) Partition Delete. When deleting a NetWare 6 partition, the NetWare 6 Master Partition is resized smaller automatically if possible. If there are no more sub partitions left, then the NetWare 6 Master Partition is removed also. ********************************************************************** Bugs Fixed: ********************************************************************** 1) Pool Restore. A check is now made to make sure that a duplicate pool name is not restored. 2) Image Command. When imaging a server and the image is interrupted an option is displayed to save the partial image file. The image file would be deleted anyways. This is fixed. 3) Fixed a bug in the Image command when writing image files and the volume has no more space left. 4) Sector Editor. Ascii Search. Fixed a bug with pressing the HOME key. The buffer would clear, but the text position within the buffer was not reset to zero. 5) NetWare Traditional Volume Copy. The Directory Services Object ID was not reset to zero for the new volume. This caused problems for CaminoSoft's Managed Server HSM product. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.34 (May-15-2005) ********************************************************************** New Features: ********************************************************************** 1) Added support for Novell Open Enterprise Server (Linux and NetWare). 2) Added support for NetWare 5.1 Service Pack 8. 3) Added support for NetWare 6.5 Service Pack 3. 4) Added support for NetWare 6.5 SP3 SuperBlock version 3.1 - 43.2. 5) Added support for NetWare 6.5 BETA Service Pack 4 Build 505. ********************************************************************** Misc Features: ********************************************************************** 1) Linux. System Commands -> Recv File. Enhanced this command to receive more than 2 GB of data if the underlying file system supports Linux Large Files (LFS). 2) Linux. System Commands -> Send File. Enhanced this command to send more than 2 GB of data if the underlying file system supports Linux Large Files (LFS). 3) Linux. Added support for the Portlock Remote Control program remote.exe. 4) Linux. Now displays type 0x8E partitions as Linux LVM. 5) When imaging the SYS volume, a check is made to see if McAffee NetShield is running. If so, then the user will be promted to unload McAfee NetShield. 6) When unloading Java, the length of time to wait has been increased from 2 seconds to 60 seconds to give Java enough time to unload. 7) When NetWare boots and the SYS volume is not available for mounting, NetWare reports the OS version as 5.60 for NetWare 6.0 and 5.70 for NetWare 6.5. Portlock Storage Manager now detects this and correctly recognizes the NetWare OS as 6.0 or 6.5. 8) Image Manager. Changed the default image file option to "Split image files" at 2 GB. 9) Changed the number of disk drives supported from 64 to 128. ********************************************************************** Bugs Fixed: ********************************************************************** 1) Image Command. If an image did not include any Traditional volumes, NSS volumes, or Pools, a prompt to purge volumes still appeared. The image command will now prompt to purge volumes only if there are volumes or pools to be imaged. 2) System Commands -> Recv File. The status screen would overflow at 4 GB. The status screen now correctly displays the number of bytes received. 3) System Commands -> Recv File. The status screen would overflow at 4 GB. The speed would be displayed incorrectly once 2 GB of data was received. 4) System Commands -> Send File. The status screen would overflow at 4 GB. The status screen now correctly displays the number of bytes sent. 5) System Commands -> Send File. The status screen would overflow at 4 GB. The speed would be displayed incorrectly once 2 GB of data was sent. 6) DOS Partition Copy. The system would not reboot with the copied partition in some cases. 7) DOS Partition Copy. The status screen did not display the DOS label during the partition copy. 8) Fixed a problem with the SCSI Read Capacity command to support the LSI FC919X Fibre Channel Adapter. 9) If the license is about to expire and scripting is enabled, the software would wait for operator input. 10) NetWare now supports partitions with a partition cylinder end. PSM has removed the test for the ending sector test. 11) NetWare now supports partitions with a partition cylinder end. PSM has removed the test for the ending head test. 12) NetWare now supports partitions with a partition cylinder end. PSM not longer reports an error for partitions that use the last few sectors of a disk drive past the last full cylinder. 13) PSM now defaults to 32 sectors per track for empty disk drives to match what SCSIHD.CDM. 14) Fixed a problem with unhiding NetWare 6 Sub Partitions. 15) Displays an error when trying to execute a Pool Rebuild under DOS or Linux. The Pool Rebuild command is a NetWare command and Portlock Storage Manager only provides a menu interface for the execution of this command. 16) Displays an error when trying to execute a Pool Verify under DOS or Linux. The Pool Verify command is a NetWare command and Portlock Storage Manager only provides a menu interface for the execution of this command. ********************************************************************** Notes: ********************************************************************** 1) Do not use emm386.exe in config.sys for the DOS version of Storage Manager. We have seen so many issues with this memory manager that we have removed the need for emm386.exe. 2) MEGA4_XX.HAM drivers. The 6.x version of these drivers have a problem in the interrupt code. If used with Storage Manager the server will abend. Use version 3.09 or 7.0.4 or later of these drivers. The PEDGE2.HAM and PEDGE3.HAM are Dell versions of this driver. 3) EMC SANS. Some EMC configurations use the POWPATH.CDM. This CDM provides virtual drive support to redundant fibre channel paths. Storage Manager does not access CDMs and instead goes directly to the HAM drivers. This may result in multiple instances being displayed for the same device. The solution is to unload the POWPATH.CDM driver, configure the QLogic Fibre Channel drivers to not include redundant paths. Then reboot the server. Once the storage management operations have been completed, return the server to the standard EMC configuration. 4) IBM Netfinity ASPI RAID DOS Driver. The is an issue with Storage Manager and the DOS ASPI RAID driver. Do not load the IBM DOS ASPI driver for the IBM RAID controllers. Storage Manager will access the RAID controller correctly without the DOS ASPI driver. 5) Compaq ASPI driver FWS2ASPI.SYS version 2.06. This ASPI driver is not compatible with other ASPI drivers. To use Compaq ASPI drivers with other ASPI drivers use version 2.05. If another ASPI driver is installed with the Compaq driver version 2.06 Storage Manager will not be able to see the Compaq driver. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.33 (Jan-1-2005) ********************************************************************** New Features: ********************************************************************** 1) None. ********************************************************************** Bugs Fixed: ********************************************************************** 1) Portlock Storage Manager could not process large MFL Trees. MFL Trees manage the Modified File Lists for a volume. 2) Portlock Storage Manager did not support the configuration whereby a NetWare 6.5 partition was mirrored and then the mirror was removed. Portlock Storage Manager now supports a NetWare 6.5 NSS partition that was previously mirrored. 3) NetWare iSCSI partitions were incorrectly displayed as NetWare 386 partitions in several screens. Note: iSCSI partitions are still not supported. ********************************************************************** Misc Features: ********************************************************************** 1) None. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.32 (Dec-29-2004) ********************************************************************** New Features: ********************************************************************** 1) Added support to purchase or renew a license via email directly from Portlock Storage Manager. ********************************************************************** Bugs Fixed: ********************************************************************** 1) Portlock Storage Manager for Linux could not hide a NetWare 6 Master Partition. An error would be reported that the partitions volumes could not be dismounted. ********************************************************************** Misc Features: ********************************************************************** 1) Added the command line option -smtp=mail_server_name. This option specifies the name of the SMTP server to use for the license renewal or purchase command. This name can be a system name (mail.portlock.com) or an IP address. 2) Added the command line option -smtp_user=user_name. This option is used when an email server requires user authentication. The user_name must be a valid user name that the SMTP server supports. If this option is used, then the -smtp and -smtp_pass options must also be used. 3) Added the command line option -smtp_pass=password. This option is used when an email server requires user authentication. The password must be a valid password that the SMTP server supports. If this option is used, then the -smtp and -smtp_user options must also be used. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.31 (Dec-13-2004) ********************************************************************** New Features: ********************************************************************** 1) Added support for NetWare 6.x Compression Objects (Beast 0x24). Previous versions of Portlock Storage Manager would report an error when this object was being processed. ********************************************************************** Bugs Fixed: ********************************************************************** 1) None. ********************************************************************** Misc Features: ********************************************************************** 1) None. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.30 (Nov-30-2004) ********************************************************************** New Features: ********************************************************************** 1) Added support under NetWare for Big IDE disk drives. These are IDE or SATA disk drives that are larger than 128 GB. ********************************************************************** Bugs Fixed: ********************************************************************** 1) The image command will now not prompt to purge a volume if scripting is enabled. The default condition is to not purge. See the new command line options below under Misc Features. ********************************************************************** Misc Features: ********************************************************************** 1) Finalized support for NetWare 5.1 SP7. 2) Finalized support for NetWare 6.0 SP5. 3) Finalized support for NetWare 6.5 SP2. 4) Added a new command line option -purge which will cause the image command to purge Traditional volumes (mounted or not mounted) and to purge NSS volumes if they are mounted before imaging a volume. 5) Added a new command line option -nopurge which will cause the image command to not purge a volume before imaging a volume. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.29 (Apr-13-2004) ********************************************************************** New Features: ********************************************************************** 1) None. ********************************************************************** Bugs Fixed: ********************************************************************** 1) Create NetWare Traditional Partition. There was a bug in creating NetWare partitions larger than 500 MB. The size of the Hotfix table was created too large. 2) NSS Volume Copy. There was a bug in Portlock Storage Manager for certain NSS partition configurations that could cause the server to abend. ********************************************************************** Misc Features: ********************************************************************** 1) Updated User Guide. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.28 (Apr-04-2004) ********************************************************************** New Features: ********************************************************************** 1) Added support for NetWare 6.5 SP2 BETA. 2) Added support for the Mac OS X Ftp server lukemftpd version 1.1. 3) Added support for the Cerberus FTP server version 2.15. Note: This FTP server is very slow on restores as it is deliberately rate limited for downloads. 4) The image command now prompts to purge volumes. ********************************************************************** Bugs Fixed: ********************************************************************** 1) The image command requires that NSS Pools be deactivated. If the user selected to not deactivate the pool, Portlock Storage Manager would continue and image the pool. This has been corrected. 2) Image command, disable image autonaming, the previous file name was used for the next image file instead of the entered file name. ********************************************************************** Misc Features: ********************************************************************** 1) The image command now enforces the .img suffix for FTP file names if auto naming is enabled. 2) The image command will now optionally delete partial image files if an image is aborted or fails to complete. 3) The image command will now double check image file names to ensure that the specified name is not already part of the image file set. 4) The image command now displays parameters such as Spanning, Span Size and Autonaming on the image status screen. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.27 (Feb-28-2004) ********************************************************************** New Features: ********************************************************************** 1) Traditional volume defragment has been added. 2) NSS volume defragment has been added. *** NetWare 6 Pool defragment is not yet supported. 3) Rebuild a Pool's Free Tree. A new command has been added for rebuilding the Free Tree of a pool. If a pool has a corrupt Free Tree, NetWare will abend instead of allowing a pool rebuild. This command has been added under "Repair Commands" -> "NetWare NSS partition and volume commands" -> "Rebuild a Pool's Free Tree". Note: It is not always possible to rebuild a corrupted Pool's Free Tree as other problems may require correction first. After the Free Tree has been rebuilt, complete a Pool Rebuild. ********************************************************************** Bugs Fixed: ********************************************************************** 1) Fixed a problem where NetWare reported that memory was not being released. This error happened when a pool was deactivated that contained more than one volume. The memory for the volume names was not being released for the second or greater volume. ********************************************************************** Misc Features: ********************************************************************** 1) The Check For Update process now starts before the initialization of the I/O library. This change supports updating Portlock Storage Manager before the product runs so that updates can be installed. 2) If a Check for Updates command updates Portlock Storage Manager, the software will automatically exit. 3) The FTP Login dialog now accepts zero length passwords. 4) The FTP Login dialog now accepts the F-5 key to obtain a directory listing from the FTP server when the cursor is located in the password field. 5) The FTP Login dialog no longer requires an image file name to be entered before obtaining a directory listing from the FTP server. 6) Changed the default timeout for the SCSI Read Capacity command from 60 seconds to 10 seconds. 7) The FTP Directory Dialog now displays directories before files. 8) Older FTP Servers that don't support the FTP SIZE command are now supported. Example: NetWare 5.0 FTP Server. 9) The FTP Login dialog box now accepts pressing the HOME key to clear the current text field. 10) When using the -imageall comand line option, the user name, file and password parameters are no longer converted to upper case. 11) When using the -imageall option and an invalid ftp server address is specified, Storage Manager no longer enters a loop trying to connect to the ftp server and not allowing the user to escape. 12) When using the -imageall option on NetWare 6, Pools will be automatically deactivated. 13) When using the -imageall option on NetWare 6, conlog.nlm will be automatically unloaded. 13) When using the -imageall option on NetWare 6, Java will be automatically unloaded. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.26 (Jan-13-2004) ********************************************************************** New Features: ********************************************************************** 1) The FTP image and restore commands now support host names for the Server field. Previously only IP addresses were accepted. For example, you can specify the host name, such as ftp.novell.com or the ip address for the host, such as 130.57.4.70. Notes: a) This requires that DNS is properly configured on the server. b) The Novell DOS Client requires special configuration for DNS. 2) The FTP image and restore commands now support displaying the directory from the FTP server and selecting an image file. To display the FTP server's directory, press the F-5 key in the login dialog box. Note: this requires that the server name, login and password fields are also entered and correct. To switch from short and long directory listings, press the F-6 key. To select an FTP server's directory while scanning directories on the FTP Server, press F-10 at any time to select that directory as your working path. Then you can manually add the file name. 3) The restore command now supports restoring a Traditional volume by overwriting an existing Traditional volume. Currently Portlock Storage Manager only restores a volume as a single segment volume even if the original volume was a multi segment volume. By creating a multi-segment volume before starting the restore, a Traditional volume can now be restored as a multi-segment volume even if the original volume was a single segment volume. ********************************************************************** Bugs Fixed: ********************************************************************** 1) None. ********************************************************************** Misc Features: ********************************************************************** 1) None. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.25 (Jan-08-2004) This release is focused upon NetWare. ********************************************************************** New Features: ********************************************************************** 1) Added a new command to merge Traditional volume segments that are consecutive. 2) Due to a bug with NetWare 6.0, partitions created prior to SP3 could be corrupted. The Pool Check and Partition Check commands have been enhanced to detect these problems. Portlock recommends that the Pool Check command be run for all NetWare 6.x Pools to make sure that you do no have a problem. For multi-segment pools that have this bug will result in pool corruption as the pool fills up. ********************************************************************** Bugs Fixed: ********************************************************************** 1) Novell recommended when unload java.nlm, to use "java -exit" instead of "java exit". 2) Fixed a licensing bug when the new year started. If a license expires on January 2, 2004 and the software release date was December 16, 2003, the software would report license expired. 3) Fixed a licensing bug where the software would display a message that the licensed period for new update had expired and then the software would display another message that you had 33 days left. 4) In version 3.24, we disabled the DVD menus. The DVD menu has been put back into the product. ********************************************************************** Misc Features: ********************************************************************** 1) Better detection for Linux partitions. Linux disk partition tools often create partition geometries that do not match how DOS, NetWare and Windows view disk geometry. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.24 (Dec-22-2003) This release is focused upon NetWare 6.0 & 6.5. ********************************************************************** New Features: ********************************************************************** 1) The release adds support for NetWare 6.5 SP1. 2) Added a lot of checking for NetWare 6.x segments. There was a bug in NetWare 6.0 previous to service pack 3 where a pool segment could be created that exceeded the size of the disk or partition. Portlock Storage Manager now double checks segment size, boundary and alignment. ********************************************************************** Bugs Fixed: ********************************************************************** 1) A NetWare 6.x NSS Volume with a large number of Directory Quotas was not processed by the Volume Check command correctly. This problem prevented these types of volumes from being managed by Portlock Storage Manager. 2) Portlock Storage Manager would sometimes report an error when checking the Name Tree: "The current Name Tree block has already been processed." This error was cause by Pool Rebuild creating Overflow Blocks. 3) On upgrades from NetWare 5.x to 6.x, an error was reported "Unsupported NetWare 6 Partition Type", "Partition Type: 65". ********************************************************************** Misc Features: ********************************************************************** 1) When imaging a NetWare 5 NSS volume or a NetWare 6 pool to a file, the free space on the destination volume was not displayed during the image process. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.23 (Dec-16-2003) This release is focused upon Linux & NetWare 6.0 / 6.5. ********************************************************************** New Features: ********************************************************************** 1) New Command "Image a single disk drive". This command is similar to "Image entire system", except that only the objects on a single disk drive are displayed. 2) New Command "Volume Copy". Copying NSS Volumes for NetWare 6.x are now supported. This command supports copying a volume to an existing pool or to a new pool. 3) Partition Resize. When selecting a partition that contains a NetWare 6 Pool, Pool Resize will be automatically called. 4) Partition Copy. When selecting a partition that contains a NetWare 6 Pool, Pool Copy will be automatically called. 5) Display Partition Map for DOS Extended Partitions. 6) Display Partition Map for NetWare 6 Pools. 7) Display Partition Map for NetWare 6 Traditional Partitions. ********************************************************************** Bugs Fixed: ********************************************************************** 1) When imaging to an FTP server, the screen displayed "retrieve" instead of save. This was a cosmetic error. ********************************************************************** Misc Features: ********************************************************************** 1) None. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.22 (Nov-18-2003) This release is focused upon NetWare 6.0 / 6.5. ********************************************************************** New Features: ********************************************************************** 1) Added new command "Resize Pool" under Pool Commands. This command will resize a single segment pool larger. 1) Added new command "Copy Pool" under Pool Commands. This command will copy a pool larger. 2) Added new command "Rename Pool" under Pool Commands. 3) Added support to rename Pool Volumes under DOS. Previously you could only rename pool volumes under NetWare. ********************************************************************** Bugs Fixed: ********************************************************************** 1) None. ********************************************************************** Misc Features: ********************************************************************** 1) None. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.21 (Nov-06-2003) This release is focused upon DOS, Linux and NetWare 6.0 / 6.5. **************************************** New Features: **************************************** 1) Added new command "Create Pool" under Pool Commands. 2) Added new command "Create Volume" under Pool Commands. This command only functions when Storage Manager is executing under NetWare 6.0 & 6.5. 3) Added support for Pool version 3.1-40.86. 4) Added support for Pool version 3.1-40.87. 5) Added the command line option "-os=N", where N can be 3,4,5,6,65. Use -os=65 to specify NetWare 6.5. This option now works under NetWare to override a NetWare bug when the SYS volume is not mounted and NetWare thinks that the OS version is 5.60. **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** 1) If two or more Linux partitions were located in a DOS Extended partition, Storage Manager could only image the first partition within the DOS Extended partition. 2) After a Partition Check completed, a status message was left on the bottom line of the screen. 3) Image Partition command. This size stored in the image is incorrect. The size was stored in sectors when it should have been storage in MB. This value is only used during the selection of items to restore and is a cosmetic error. 4) The Pool Delete command incorrectly freed the same memory twice. Depending on the server's set parameters, this could abend the server. 5) The Restore Command did not check for duplicate pool names during a restore of an NSS Pool. 6) Corrected misspellings under the Repair Commands menu. 7) If a Pool had a large number of volumes (~100) Storage Manager could abend when processing the volume list. 8) "Internal Error: Starting sector != cylinder offset" message during Pool Move. Storage Manager was incorrectly checking the destination partition offset during a Pool Move. This has been corrected. **************************************** Misc Features: **************************************** 1) When imaging DOS partitions, the image selection screen now displays the partition labels for DOS partitions. 2) Storage Manager could hide a DOS Extended Partition, but could not unhide a DOS Extended Partition. 3) When imaging objects to a file located on a NetWare volume Storage Manager now displays the amount of free disk space. 5) Image Manager. Support has been added for "Image Drive" objects. 4) Image Manager. Support has been added for "Image Partition" objects. 5) NSS Volume Check now displays errors in yellow to make the error message easier to locate. 6) Changed the message "N Blocks Missing an Owner" to "N Blocks are not assigned" because this confused customers. This error means that there are volume (Pool) blocks that are not allocated to either the Free List, File Data or file system Meta Data. 7) Increased the number of supported volumes per pool from 64 to 128. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.20 (Oct-21-2003) This release is focused upon NetWare 6.0 and 6.5. **************************************** New Features: **************************************** 1) Added support for Pool version 3.1-40.85. **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** 1) Storage Manager could abend when checking for updates and logging is enabled. **************************************** Misc Features: **************************************** 1) A NetWare bug has been found with NetWare 6.5. Storage Manager might report the error "Invalid NetWare 6 Partition Stamp". This NetWare bug is caused by not marking the misc free space at the end of a NetWare Master partition as being free. We are investigating creating a data repair command to fix this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.19 (Sep-28-2003) This release is focused upon Linux and NetWare 6.0 and 6.5. **************************************** New Features: **************************************** 1) None. **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** 1) Storage Manager could abend when processing a very large Salvage Tree. **************************************** Misc Features: **************************************** 1) Improved "Check for Updates" command. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.18 (Sep-08-2003) This release is focused upon Linux and NetWare 6.0 and 6.5. **************************************** New Features: **************************************** 1) Added the ability to delete NetWare 6 Storage Pool partitions from DOS. 2) The Image and Restore commands now support Linux Reiser file systems. 3) The Partition Copy command now supports Linux Ext2 / Ext3 partitions. 4) The Partition Copy command now supports Linux Reiser partitions. 5) Support for hiding and unhiding Linux swap partitions. 6) Support for hiding and unhiding Linux native partitions. 7) A new command Partition Image has been added. This is for data recovery operations. This command creates a sector-by-sector image of any disk partition. **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** 1) Storage Manager could not process Ext2 / Ext3 file systems with a block size of 2048 bytes. This is now fixed. 2) Support for HP 12 / 24 GB DAT drives has been added. Certain firmware versions for this tape drive were not supported by Storage Manager. This is now fixed. **************************************** Misc Features: **************************************** 1) Storage Manager now detects the Linux JFS File System. This file system is not supported. 2) Storage Manager now detects the Linux XFS File System. This file system is not supported. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.17 (Aug-16-2003) This release is focused upon Linux systems. **************************************** New Features: **************************************** 1) Linux support for Image and Restore of Linux Ext2 / Ext3 file systems. 2) The creation of Linux Swap partitions. 3) Storage Manager now supports systems that boot using the Linux GRUB Boot Loader. **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** 1) Fixed a problem Storage Manager reporting "Blocks with no Owner." **************************************** Misc Features: **************************************** 1) Storage Manager now detects 48-bit LBA devices under NetWare and displays a warning about not begin supported. We are seeing problems in our testing labs with a number of NetWare drivers when using large IDE disk drives greater than 131 GB. For large IDE disk drives, use the DOS version of Storage Manager. 2) Improved Storage Manager's Pool Check code for NetWare 6.0 and 6.5. A number of new types of corruption are now detected. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.16 (June-2-2003) This release is focused upon a Compaq SmartStart bug. **************************************** New Features: **************************************** 1) Storage Manager now detects a bug with Compaq SmartStart v6.x created DOS partitions. **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** 1) None. **************************************** Misc Features: **************************************** 1) The System Menu Receive File command now detects if TCP/IP is installed before creating the destination file. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.15 (May-26-2003) This release is focused upon NetWare 6.0 and 6.5 and Imaging from DOS. **************************************** New Features: **************************************** 1) Creation of FAT32 partitions has been added. 2) Added the ability to verify a Disk Sector Image. **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** 1) When imaging a NTFS partition, the status screen did not display the NTFS volume label correctly. This was a cosmetic bug. 2) When imaging and the image file becomes full and the destination drive is changed for the next image file, Storage Manager did not change the drive being checked for free space. This was a cosmetic bug. **************************************** Misc Features: **************************************** 1) Changed the number of bytes written per I/O when writing to a disk file. This improves performance of Storage Manager when writing to a mapped drive letter under the Microsoft DOS Client. 2) Image Splitting is now enabled by default at 2,000,000,000 bytes for both FILE and FTP destinations. This corrects the common problem of "Permission Denied" when writing to a DOS partition and the DOS partition becomes full or the DOS image file reaches 2 GB. 3) DOS: When imaging to a file on FAT32 partition, the correct value for free space remaining is now displayed on the screen. Previously Storage Manager (DOS) used an older DOS call that only supported reporting free space up to 2 GB. **************************************** Scripting Features: **************************************** We have added several command line options to automate scripting. 1) You want to image your workstation or server to an FTP server. stormgr -script -os=6 -imageall -imageftp=192.168.1.10,anonymous,user@test.com,imgfile.img 2) You have mapped a drive letter from DOS using either the Novell Client or the Microsoft Client. You want to image your workstation or server to this mapped drive letter. stormgr -script -os=6 -imageall -imagefile=g:imgfile.img Details: -script Turn on scripting. -os=6 Set the version for NetWare emulation (3, 4, 5 or 6) For Windows workstations set to 6 -imageall Image all disk drives and all partitions / volumes -imageftp=ip_address,ftp_user,ftp_password,filename -imagefile=filename ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.14 (May-19-2003) This release is focused upon NetWare 6.0 and 6.5. **************************************** New Features: **************************************** 1) File Editor under system commands. **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** 1) Fixed a problem with unloading Java after installing the latest Novell service packs (NW51SP6 and NW6SP3). 2) Fixed a problem with multi-processor support that was introduced with the remote screen capture code added in version 3.12. **************************************** Misc Features: **************************************** None ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.13 (May-11-2003) This release is focused upon NetWare 6.0 and 6.5. **************************************** New Features: **************************************** 1) New Pool command: Hide Pool. 2) New Pool command: List Pools. 3) New Pool command: Unhide Pool. 4) New Pool command: Move Pool. This command copies and resizes an NSS Pool from one storage location to another. The original NSS Pool is hidden. The Pool Unhide command can be used to "unhide" the original pool. **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** 1) Image Command: Storage Manager supports imaging Extended DOS Partitions. However, the image command would display the DOS Label for the first Extended DOS partition for each following Extended DOS partition. This was a cosmetic bug. 2) REMOTE.EXE. The cursor would not be displayed during screen captures. **************************************** Misc Features: **************************************** None ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.12 (Apr-27-2003) **************************************** New Features: **************************************** 1) New feature to recover deleted FAT32 partitions. 2) New feature to recover deleted NTFS partitions. 3) Storage Manager now recognizes NetWare 6 partitions, pools and volumes when installed on previous versions of NetWare. Installing NetWare 6 disk drives on previous versions of NetWare can result in data corruption. However, there are times when a customer may want to perform data recovery operations on a drive in a different server when running from DOS. 4) New command to delete a NetWare 6 Pool. 5) New command to undelete a NetWare 6 Pool. 6) Sector Editor command. 7) CD/DVD Read Test command. 8) Disk Verify Write Sequential command. 9) Disk Verify Read-Back Sequential command. 10) Improved partition commands for DOS, Linux, NetWare and Windows. **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** 1) If there were more than two partitions within an Extended DOS partition, the image command would only display the first two. 2) If there were more than 17 items to be imaged, the image would complete, but the status window could not be displayed. 3) DOS: Storage Manager would hang if the HP version of MEGASPI.SYS was loaded. This device driver incorrectly implements the SCSI spec and does not support short SCSI read commands. Instead of returning an error to Storage Manager, megaspi.sys would just hang the system. Storage Manager now only issues long SCSI read / write commands to this device driver. **************************************** Misc Features: **************************************** 1) Image Command. If an unformatted or unrecognized DOS partition is found during the image process, the option to continue or cancel the image is now supported. Previously, the image command would stop. 2) Added a new partition integrity test (at startup) to compare the calculated partition start using the CHS (cylinder, head, sector) values and the sector offset field of the FDISK table. 3) Added a new partition integrity test (at startup) to compare the calculated partition end using the CHS (cylinder, head, sector) values and the sector offset and count fields of the FDISK table. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.11 (Nov-29-2002) **************************************** New Features: **************************************** 1) None. **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** 1) Removed a debug message from the DOS Partition Copy command. 2) Fixed an abend in the volume copy command. **************************************** Misc Features: **************************************** 1) None. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.10 (Nov-16-2002) **************************************** New Features: **************************************** 1) Added new command "Recv File" located under "System Commands". This command receives data and writes it to a file. This command is similar to "Send File". 2) Added support for DOS Extended partitions (preliminary support). 3) Added support for DOS Extended LBA partitions (preliminary support). 4) Added support for FAT32 partitions (preliminary support). 5) Added support for FAT32 LBA partitions (preliminary support). 6) Added support for NTFS partitions (preliminary support). **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** 1) If a DOS Extended partition is created by the DOS Fdisk and no partitions are created within the Extended partition, Storage Manager would display a series of Type 0xf6 partitions which do not exist. 2) If a Primary DOS partition is created by Fdisk but not formatted with the DOS format command, Storage Manager would report an invalid sector size for the partition. Storage Manager now reports that the partition is not formatted. 3) If a NetWare 5 Storage Group volume is missing segment 0, then the display partition window would show "No Volumes". 4) If a NetWare 5 Storage Group volume is missing segment 0, then the partition map command would show "No Volumes". 5) If a NetWare 5 Storage Group volume is missing segment 0, then the "Select a Volume" window would not display the volume. 6) DOS. If a file name is not specified in the restore dialog box and instead ESC is pressed, Storage Manager would hang when exiting from the Main Menu. 7) When skipping a Dell Diagnostic partition during restore, the screen would display skipping DOS partition. 8) Modified the Drive Initialize command to default to cancel instead of defaulting to initialize in the menus. This is to prevent an accidental initialization of a disk drive. 9) When Storage Manager reboots a system, the logfile is not closed and information that should be written to the logfile is not written. **************************************** Misc Features: **************************************** 1) Improved the handling of NetWare 5 Storage Group volumes that are missing one or more volume segments. 2) For ATAPI DVD writers, added the ability to detect and retry data under-runs. 3) DVD support is now enabled by default. To disable DVD support use the command line option -nodvd. 4) Added a new partition check to detect more than one active partition on the same drive. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.09 (Oct-29-2002) **************************************** New Features: **************************************** 1) Added a new command line switch "-ignore=[1-64]". This switch causes Storage Manager to ignore the specified disk drive. This is commonly used on Fibre Channel SANs that have multiple paths to the same device. This can also be used for disk drives that are having hardware problems, and you want Storage Manager to not attempt disk accesses. 2) Added support for Partition Copy of Compaq Diagnostic Partitions. 3) Added support for Partition Copy of Dell Diagnostic Partitions. 4) Added support for Partition Copy of IBM Diagnostic Partitions. **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** 1) Fixed a problem with screen redrawing if a large number of partitions are being displayed. 2) Send File command would crash in the "server mode" when executing from DOS if the TCP/IP stack was not initialized correctly before Storage Manager was started. **************************************** Misc Features: **************************************** 1) The window that displays drive partitions, now displays DOS Extended Partitions in the window. 2) A new function key has been added (F-4). When a Select Drive dialog box is being displayed, pressing F4 will hide the Select Drive dialog box. This is useful when there are more than six partitions being displayed as some of the partitions will be hidden begin the Select Drive dialog box. 3) The Activate Partition command now displays the current active partition in the Select Partition dialog box. The active partition is noted by an '*' character. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.08 (Oct-22-2002) **************************************** New Features: **************************************** 1) None. **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** 1) DOS and MEGASPI.SYS. Storage Manager would hang if this device driver was loaded. This device driver incorrectly implements the SCSI spec and does not support short SCSI read commands. Instead of returning an error to Storage Manager, megaspi.sys would just hang the system. Storage Manager now only issues long SCSI read / write commands to this device driver. 2) Linux does not use the system BIOS to determine device geometry. Storage Manager does use the system BIOS. This would cause Storage Manager to issue warnings about systems that had Linux installed. Storage Manager now uses the geometry that Linux used to partition disk drives by determining the disk geometry from the partition table if the partition table does not agree with the system BIOS. 3) Linux encodes the cylinder / head / sector fields differently than DOS or NetWare. Storage Manager now correctly recognizes partitions created by Linux and does not report error messages about partition format problems. 4) Volume Purge while volume is dismounted. The screen drawing logic would display a series of spaces to the right of the dialog box. This is just a cosmetic error. 5) If one partition ended past the start of another, the partition command would display a very large number as free space between the two partitions, when there is actually no free space. However, this is an invalid partition configuration as writing to one partition could destroy the other partition. 6) Fixed a problem with Volume Copy where a ThreadSwitch() was being called too often, causing a very long delay from DOS when calculating the number of blocks to copy. 7) If a Promise IDE Raid controller + an IDE controller both had one disk drive installed and the NWIO interface was selected, three disk drives would be detected by Storage Manager instead of two. **************************************** Misc Features: **************************************** 1) None. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.07 (Oct-07-2002) **************************************** New Features: **************************************** 1) Storage Manager has a new command to purge volumes - "Volume Purge". Traditional Volume Support: Volumes can be purged when mounted or dismounted. Volumes can be purged from NetWare or DOS. Storage Manager can purge a volume faster that is dismounted than NetWare can purge a volume that is mounted. NSS Volume Support: Volumes can only be purged when mounted. This also means that Storage Manager can not purge an NSS volume from DOS. 2) Storage Manager has a new command to remove Block Suballocation from a NetWare volume - "Remove Volume Block Suballocation" located under the "Volume Commands" -> "Advanced Commands". This command operates on dismounted volumes, and can be run from NetWare or from DOS. This command removes Block Suballocation from a volume and disables future Block Suballocation providing that the command completely converts every file. This command will stop once the number of free blocks on a volume goes below 100 blocks. Compressed files remain compressed after the conversion. If this command stops due to not enough free space or an error condition, then Block Suballocation will be left enabled. **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** 1) None. **************************************** Misc Features: **************************************** 1) None. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.06 (Oct-04-2002) **************************************** New Features: **************************************** 1) This version now fits once again onto a single floppy diskette. There are two versions of the main Storage Manager module: stormgr.nlm (uncompressed version) stormgr.clm (compressed version). When creating a floppy diskette, copy the following files to the floppy diskette: 1) stormgr.exe 2) stormgr.clm 3) stormgr.lic 4) tcpipn.nlm **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** 1) Storage Manager would report the ending cylinder incorrectly in the Partition Check command. 2) Storage Manager would warn "The partition starts at cylinder 0 and the beginning head does not start at 1". This message was incorrect. **************************************** Misc Features: **************************************** 1) The licensing process has been improved when converting Storage Manager from an evaluation version to a production version. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.05 (Oct-03-2002) **************************************** New Features: **************************************** 1) This version now fits once again onto a single floppy diskette. There are two versions of the main Storage Manager module: stormgr.nlm (uncompressed version) stormgr.clm (compressed version). When creating a floppy diskette, copy the following files to the floppy diskette: 1) stormgr.exe 2) stormgr.clm 3) stormgr.lic 4) tcpipn.nlm 2) The image command now supports writing spanning images to an FTP server. **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** 1) When renaming a Traditional NetWare volume under DOS the volume would be renamed and then a error message would appear that this is only supported under NetWare. This message has been removed. 2) Storage Manager did not work correctly with some Linux FTP servers. 3) Storage Manager now works correctly with FTP servers that report out of disk space error messages. 4) Storage Manager now works correctly with FTP servers that report quota exceeded error messages. **************************************** Misc Features: **************************************** 1) None. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.04 (Sep-30-2002) **************************************** New Features: **************************************** 1) This version now fits once again onto a single floppy diskette. There are two versions of the main Storage Manager module: stormgr.nlm (uncompressed version) stormgr.clm (compressed version). When creating a floppy diskette, copy the following files to the floppy diskette: 1) stormgr.exe 2) stormgr.clm 3) stormgr.lic 4) tcpipn.nlm **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** 1) Improved the "Check for Updates" command to correctly process HTTP response headers in the data stream. This is common on caching web server proxies. Storage Manager would previously fail to update itself. **************************************** Misc Features: **************************************** 1) Improved the Volume Check command when processing NSS volumes on NetWare 6 that were upgraded from NetWare 5 NSS volumes. Added a separate line entry on the status screen for Salvage records so that the software does not appear to be hung when processing a volume with large numbers of deleted files. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.03 (Sep-25-2002) **************************************** New Features: **************************************** 1) New support for an index file has been added to the FTP section for image and restore. This index file called "index.ftp" can be used to create a custom directory listing of files available for download from an FTP server. 2) The restore command now supports retrieving spanning images from an FTP server. **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** 1) The FTP dialog box would display the password in clear text. This has been fixed to hide the password. 2) Storage Manager did not work with FTP servers that returned a multi-line response to commands. This is now supported. **************************************** Misc Features: **************************************** 1) When trying to copy a non NetWare partition such as a DOS partition on NetWare 3.x or 4.x and there are mounted volumes on the same device, a warning would appear about not being able to lock the device. This warning is not necessary and has been removed. 2) After deleting a DOS partition, a warning that the server should be rebooted is now displayed. The reason for this is that DOS keeps partition information in memory and even though the partition has been deleted, DOS still believes that the partition still exists. NetWare can access DOS partitions while running and this could cause corruption if a new partition is created in the same space as the deleted partition. 3) The partition delete command has been improved to prompt for the deletion of volumes when deleting a Traditional NetWare partition. Previous versions of Storage Manager would just display a warning dialog box that volumes were present and that they must be deleted first. 4) The restore command has been modified so that all items can be skipped during a restore. This feature can be used to verify the image integrity. 5) During the initialization of Storage Manager, additional checks are performed to ensure the integrity of all partitions. A series of tests are performed and warning messages are issued to the screen. If the -logfile option is used, additional details will be written to the logfile. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.02 (Sep-22-2002) **************************************** New Features: **************************************** 1) Support for FTP servers has been added to the image and restore commands. Now Storage Manager can write images to an FTP server or restore an image from an FTP server. 2) New Command: A Partition Check command has been added to check the integrity of partitions on a NetWare server. 3) Renaming of NSS volumes is now supported. 4) Support for copying DOS partitions has been enabled for NetWare 6. **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** 1) Fixed a bug in "Get Selection" when scrolling thru the bottom of a window. The last line would be redrawn in the wrong place if the selection box had one line more than the number of displayed lines. 2) The restore command would set a DOS partition active even if another partition was already active. This would cause a problem with rebooting the server if this was the booting drive. The restore command will check to see if another partition is already active before setting the active state. 3) The partition convert command had debug code enabled. This has been removed. **************************************** Misc Features: **************************************** 1) When trying to copy a non NetWare partition such as a DOS partition on NetWare 3.x or 4.x and there are mounted volumes on the same device, a warning would appear about not being able to lock the device. This warning is not necessary and has been removed. 2) After deleting a DOS partition, a warning that the server should be rebooted is now displayed. The reason for this is that DOS keeps partition information in memory and even though the partition has been deleted, DOS still believes that the partition still exists. NetWare can access DOS partitions while running and this could cause corruption if a new partition is created in the same space as the deleted partition. 3) The partition delete command has been improved to prompt for the deletion of volumes when deleting a Traditional NetWare partition. Previous versions of Storage Manager would just display a warning dialog box that volumes were present and that they must be deleted first. 4) The restore command has been modified so that all items can be skipped during a restore. This feature can be used to verify the image integrity. 5) During the initialization of Storage Manager, additional checks are performed to ensure the integrity of all partitions. A series of tests are performed and warning messages are issued to the screen. If the -logfile option is used, additional details will be written to the logfile. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 3.01 (Aug-25-2002) **************************************** New Features: **************************************** 1) Added DOS support for ATAPI CD/DVDs. No device drivers are required. 2) Added HTTP support to the restore command. Images can now be saved to a web server and then the restore command can connect to the web server to restore a server or a volume. **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** 1) Corrected a problem with NSS Named Data Streams. The Volume Check command would fail if there were a large number of these objects on the volume. **************************************** Misc Features: **************************************** None. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Preliminary Release 3.00 (June-16-2002) **************************************** Notes: **************************************** 1) This release supports NetWare 6. This support is preliminary and is not fully tested. 2) This release supports DVD burners. This support is preliminary and is not fully tested. 3) Do not use emm386.exe in config.sys for the DOS version of Storage Manager. We have seen so many issues with this memory manager that we have removed the need for emm386.exe. **************************************** New Features: **************************************** 1) NetWare 6 support. 2) Added DOS support for SCSI CD/DVDs using ASPI device drivers. 3) Added ASPI interface support for SCSI CD/DVDs. This support applies to NetWare 3.x and 4.x servers using the older DSK device drivers. **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** None. **************************************** Misc Features: **************************************** None. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 2.08 (June-9-2002) **************************************** Notes: **************************************** 1) Do not use emm386.exe in config.sys for the DOS version of Storage Manager. We have seen so many issues with this memory manager that we have removed the need for emm386.exe. **************************************** New Features: **************************************** 1) DOS: The DOS version Storage Manager has been changed to be two different versions based upon memory management needs. a) stormgr.exe does not support Virtual Memory and relies upon only the physical memory in a machine. This is the default and recommended version. b) stormgrv.exe does support Virtual Memory and relies upon the physical memory in a machine plus uses free disk space in the DOS partition. If the environment variable TMP is set, then the free space in that directory will be used for a swap file. If TMP is not set, then the current working directory will be used for a swap file. You may need to try various combinations of stormgr.exe with and without himem.sys to make all physical memory available. If only 62 MB is available, then try to use stormgrv.exe which will use Virtual Memory. Different motherboards use different hardware for memory management. 2) Added a new command line option for stormgr.exe. -memtest will report the amount of memory that could be allocated under DOS. This test is designed to help identify the amount of memory that Storage Manager can detect while running under DOS. Note: This option will stop once 1024 MB of memory has been allocated. This option does not work under NetWare. 3) NSS: When deleting an NSS Storage Group Partition, Storage Manager will now prompt to delete volumes that are in this partition. Before Storage Manager would report that the volumes should be deleted first which would be an additional step for the user. 4) Added support for copying IBM Diagnostic Partitions. 5) Added a command to activate any FDISK partition. 6) Added a new command line option for stormgr.exe. -noeide will disable using the Extended INT13 interface when determining the size of disk drives when running under DOS. On some older systems trying to use the Extended INT13 will hang the system. 7) Added support for imaging, restoring and copying Dell Diagnostic partitions. **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** 1) Fixed a problem for "Check for Updates" that would cause Storage Manager to be unable to retrieve the update list. 2) Fixed a restore problem where a "checksum error" would prevent the restore of a DOS or Diagnostic partition. There were no problems with the image format, the problem was caused by enabling image compression. The restore code calculated the checksum based upon an incorrect length value. 3) When copying an NSS volume to an existing Storage Group partition and there was not enough free space for the volume copy, NetWare would complain about allocated memory not being released when Storage Manager exited. 4) When selecting the NWIO interface, Storage Manager would scan the SCSI bus using the ASPI interface if available. If a SCSI device returned more than 128 bytes of data to the Inquiry command, Storage Manager would abend the server. **************************************** Misc Features: **************************************** 1) Improved the performance of the Traditional Volume Copy command when the option to copy all data including unallocated space is selected. Performance improvement of up to 100%. 2) For very large Traditional volumes, the Volume Information command would appear to be hung. The command was actually reading the FAT tables. An informational dialog box is now displayed. 3) For very large Traditional volumes, the Volume Rename command would appear to be hung. The command was actually reading the FAT tables. An informational dialog box is now displayed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 2.07 (Feb-2-2002) **************************************** New Features: **************************************** 1) New command to recover deleted NetWare partitions. The are some limits to the ability to recover deleted partitions. This command will recover partitions that have been deleted by the NetWare "Initialize hard disk" command or by an accident that destroys the booting sector. Note: This command can not recover a deleted NetWare partition that has been deleted by the NetWare "delete any disk partition" command as the vital partition information has been destroyed. 2) New command to recover deleted DOS partitions. The are some limits to the ability to recover deleted partitions. This command will recover partitions that have been deleted by the NetWare "Initialize hard disk" command or by an accident that destroys the booting sector. **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** None. **************************************** Misc Features: **************************************** None. **************************************** Known Limitation (bugs) in this version: **************************************** Most of these limitations will be removed in future releases of Storage Manager. Check our web site, as we often release improved versions of Storage Manager. http://www.portlock.com 1) The image command can image an NSS multi-segment Storage Group volume. The restore command can only restore this NSS volume as a single segment. Storage Manager will convert the multi-segment volume into a single segment volume. 2) The NSS volume resize command can not resize a Storage Group volume. 3) The NSS volume resize command can not resize NSS volumes smaller. However, NSS Volume Copy, NSS Volume Restore, and NSS Partition Convert commands do support resizing NSS volumes smaller. 4) NetWare 5 NSS mirroring is not supported. 5) For NSS versions earlier than version 2.97 (NetWare 5.1 SP3), the server sometimes needs to be rebooted to see NSS partitions created with Storage Manager. There is a partition re-scanning bug with NetWare that was fixed in NW51 SP3. 6) Storage Manager does not support NSS volumes created inside a Traditional NetWare volume. 7) NetWare Clustering Services are not supported. 8) When copying an NSS Non-Storage Group Partition to a new Non-Storage Group partition, resizing the volume smaller during the copy is not supported. Copy the partition to a Storage Group to enable resizing the partition smaller during the copy. 9) When copying an NSS Non-Storage Group Volume to a new Non-Storage Group Volume, resizing the volume smaller during the copy is not supported. Copy the partition to a Storage Group to enable resizing the volume smaller during the copy. 10) Storage Manager can not move the starting position of an NSS partition. 11) NSS Storage Group Partition Copy is not supported. The current workaround is to copy the individual NSS volumes using the NSS Volume Copy command. 12) DOS: ATAPI (IDE) Tape drives are not supported. Only under NetWare. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 2.06 (Jan-27-2002) **************************************** New Features: **************************************** 1) New support for ATAPI (IDE) tape drives. This includes the Tecmar Travan WS20 20 GB ATAPI drive. Note: This support is only available while running under NetWare. DOS support for ATAPI tape drives is not yet supported (to be released in a future version). 2) New support for the Sony SDX-300C AIT tape drive. This includes both Fixed Length and Variable Length recording modes. 3) New support for the Exabyte EXB-8505 tape drive. This includes both Fixed Length and Variable Length recording modes. 4) Added support for the IBM Diagnostic Partition. 5) Significant changes to IMAGEMGR.NLM. Updated for new tape drive support. 6) Added support for the Infortrend IFT-2101U RAID Controller. **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** 1) The NSS partition convert command would sometimes not be able to convert an NSS Type 1 partition into an NSS Type 2 (Storage Group) partition. This command would previously report a warning and then stop before modifying the volume. 2) Storage Manager would fail to load on systems that did not have TCP/IP loaded. The module svrupd10.nlm referenced TCP/IP symbols statically instead of importing them at run-time. 3) Corrected a problem with imagemgr.nlm that would abend the server. This was due to an interface issue between imagemgr.nlm and svrupd10.nlm. 4) DOS: When Storage Manager is running in DOS mode, Storage Manager would report disk drives as being 8 GB even though these disk drives were larger. This was due to an extended INT13 interface bug in Storage Manager for some controllers. 5) DOS: When Storage Manager is running in DOS mode, Storage Manager would report disk drives as being 8 GB even though these disk drives were larger. This was due to an ASPI interface bug in Storage Manager for some controllers. 6) For some SCSI and RAID controllers, the I/O block size that Storage Manager was using was too large and the controllers would report I/O size too large errors. This included the Compaq Fibre Channel controller and the IBM Raid controller in the Netfinity 5000. 7) When copying a Traditional NetWare volume from DOS, Storage Manager would prompt to remount the source and destination volumes. Storage Manager has been corrected to not ask to mount volumes when running under DOS. 8) An error was reported when trying to hide an NSS Type 2 partition with Storage Group Volumes. This has been fixed. **************************************** Misc Features: **************************************** 1) During image and restore, additional information about DLT tape drives is displayed such as the Media Type, Density and tape drive total hours of operation. 2) When writing an image to a DOS partition or a NetWare traditional or NSS volume and the destination becomes full, Storage Manager would report an error message that did not indicate that the destination is full. 3) When imaging to a DOS partition or a volume the current amount of free space on the destination is updated every few seconds. Previous versions of Storage Manager did not display the free space on the destination device. 4) When copying a large Traditional NetWare volume, the volume copy status screen would be displayed and then the software would appear to be hung. Storage Manager was actually calculating the number of blocks to be copied. Now a status box is displayed. **************************************** Known Limitation (bugs) in this version: **************************************** Most of these limitations will be removed in future releases of Storage Manager. Check our web site, as we often release improved versions of Storage Manager. http://www.portlock.com 1) The image command can image an NSS multi-segment Storage Group volume. The restore command can only restore this NSS volume as a single segment. Storage Manager will convert the multi-segment volume into a single segment volume. 2) The NSS volume resize command can not resize a Storage Group volume. 3) The NSS volume resize command can not resize NSS volumes smaller. However, NSS Volume Copy, NSS Volume Restore, and NSS Partition Convert commands do support resizing NSS volumes smaller. 4) NetWare 5 NSS mirroring is not supported. 5) For NSS versions earlier than version 2.97 (NetWare 5.1 SP3), the server sometimes needs to be rebooted to see NSS partitions created with Storage Manager. There is a partition re-scanning bug with NetWare that was fixed in NW51 SP3. 6) Storage Manager does not support NSS volumes created inside a Traditional NetWare volume. 7) NetWare Clustering Services are not supported. 8) When copying an NSS Non-Storage Group Partition to a new Non-Storage Group partition, resizing the volume smaller during the copy is not supported. Copy the partition to a Storage Group to enable resizing the partition smaller during the copy. 9) When copying an NSS Non-Storage Group Volume to a new Non-Storage Group Volume, resizing the volume smaller during the copy is not supported. Copy the partition to a Storage Group to enable resizing the volume smaller during the copy. 10) Storage Manager can not move the starting position of an NSS partition. 11) NSS Storage Group Partition Copy is not supported. The current workaround is to copy the individual NSS volumes using the NSS Volume Copy command. 12) DOS: ATAPI (IDE) Tape drives are not supported. Only under NetWare. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 2.05 (Dec-30-2001) **************************************** New Features: **************************************** 1) New support for tape drives that only support Block Length mode when writing to the tape drive. This includes the HP T-20 family. 2) New support for AIT tape drives such as the Seagate Sidewinder. 3) New feature to sector image a disk drive. This command is designed to support creating images of a corrupted disk drive so that the drive data can be recovered. The sector image includes the partition tables, free space, data, etc. If a data recovery fails, the drive can be restored exactly as before so that another recovery attempt can be performed. 4) New feature to recover deleted NSS Type 1 volumes. An NSS Type 1 volume is an NSS volume that is not part of an NSS Storage Group. 5) New feature to recover deleted NSS Type 1 partitions. An NSS Type 1 partition is an NSS partition that is not an NSS Storage Group. 6) New feature to recover deleted NSS Type 2 volumes. An NSS Type 2 volume is an NSS volume that is part of an NSS Storage Group. 7) New feature to recover deleted NSS Type 2 partitions. An NSS Type 2 partition is an NSS partition that is part of an NSS Storage Group. 8) New feature to install the stormgr.lic license file from floppy diskette. **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** 1) The Drive Information window displayed the "Last Cyl" field incorrectly. The displayed value was the total number of cylinders instead of the last cylinder used. 2) When imaging a system to a disk file, the system would provide the option to cancel the "restore" command instead of displaying "image". This was just a mistake in the title. 3) DOS: stormgr.exe would display the version of an NLM as 2.5.1 instead of 2.05.1. 4) In a rare instance, two partitions created by Storage Manager could not be mirrored by NetWare. 5) Adaptec 2944W. This controller would freeze the I/O queue if there was an error on the SCSI bus. This would cause NetWare to hang. Storage Manager now restarts the I/O queue. 6) DOS FAT16 Partition Creation. Storage Manager could create a partition that was larger than the free space available if a partition was being created between two other partitions. **************************************** Misc Features: **************************************** 1) Storage Manager now detects that TSA500 is loaded before attempting to unload NSS. TSA500.NLM would cause the unload of NSS to fail. 2) Storage Manager now detects that the SYS volume is not mounted before attempting to load the NSS Subsystem. If the SYS volume is not mounted then NSS could fail to load. 3) Storage Manager now detects that CONLOG is loaded before attempting to dismount SYS. 4) Storage Manager now detects that JAVA is loaded before attempting to dismount SYS. 5) After a Volume Copy, Storage Manager will now prompt to remount the source and destination volumes. 6) Storage Manager now detects FAT32 partitions and displays the partition's volume label. 7) Storage Manager now detects NTFS partitions and display the partition's volume label. **************************************** Known Limitation (bugs) in this version: **************************************** Most of these limitations will be removed in future releases of Storage Manager. Check our web site, as we often release improved versions of Storage Manager. http://www.portlock.com 1) The image command can image an NSS multi-segment Storage Group volume. The restore command can only restore this NSS volume as a single segment. Storage Manager will convert the multi-segment volume into a single segment volume. 2) The NSS volume resize command can not resize a Storage Group volume. 3) The NSS volume resize command can not resize NSS volumes smaller. However, NSS Volume Copy, NSS Volume Restore, and NSS Partition Convert commands do support resizing NSS volumes smaller. 4) NetWare 5 NSS mirroring is not supported. 5) For NSS version earlier than version 2.97 (NetWare 5.1 SP3), the server sometimes needs to be rebooted to see NSS partitions created with Storage Manager. There is a partition re-scanning bug with NetWare that was fixed in NW51 SP3. 6) Storage Manager does not support NSS volumes created inside a Traditional NetWare volume. 7) NetWare Clustering Services are not supported. 8) When copying an NSS Non-Storage Group Partition to a new Non-Storage Group partition, resizing the volume smaller during the copy is not supported. Copy the partition to a Storage Group to enable resizing the partition smaller during the copy. 9) When copying an NSS Non-Storage Group Volume to a new Non-Storage Group Volume, resizing the volume smaller during the copy is not supported. Copy the partition to a Storage Group to enable resizing the volume smaller during the copy. 10) Storage Manager can not move the starting position of an NSS partition. 11) NSS Storage Group Partition Copy is not supported. The current workaround is to copy the individual NSS volumes using the NSS Volume Copy command. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 2.04 (Dec-1-2001) **************************************** New Features: **************************************** None. **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** 1) NSS Volume Check would report an error for volumes with sparse files. 2) NSS Volume Check would report an error for volumes with overflow blocks in the Name Tree. 3) If a SCSI tape was write-protected at the start of an image, the image command would not write the correct image header to the tape after the write-protect was removed. **************************************** Known Limitation (bugs) in this version: **************************************** Most of these limitations will be removed in future releases of Storage Manager. Check our web site, as we often release improved versions of Storage Manager. http://www.portlock.com 1) The image command can image an NSS multi-segment Storage Group volume. The restore command can only restore this NSS volume as a single segment. Storage Manager will convert the multi-segment volume into a single segment volume. 2) The NSS volume resize command can not resize a Storage Group volume. 3) The NSS volume resize command can not resize NSS volumes smaller. However, NSS Volume Copy, NSS Volume Restore, and NSS Partition Convert commands do support resizing NSS volumes smaller. 4) NetWare 5 NSS mirroring is not supported. 5) For NSS version earlier than version 2.97 (NetWare 5.1 SP3), the server sometimes needs to be rebooted to see NSS partitions created with Storage Manager. There is a partition re-scanning bug with NetWare that was fixed in NW51 SP3. 6) Storage Manager does not support NSS volumes created inside a Traditional NetWare volume. 7) NetWare Clustering Services are not supported. 8) When copying an NSS Non-Storage Group Partition to a new Non-Storage Group partition, resizing the volume smaller during the copy is not supported. Copy the partition to a Storage Group to enable resizing the partition smaller during the copy. 9) When copying an NSS Non-Storage Group Volume to a new Non-Storage Group Volume, resizing the volume smaller during the copy is not supported. Copy the partition to a Storage Group to enable resizing the volume smaller during the copy. 10) Storage Manager can not move the starting position of an NSS partition. 11) NSS Storage Group Partition Copy is not supported. The current workaround is to copy the individual NSS volumes using the NSS Volume Copy command. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 2.03 (Nov-17-2001) **************************************** New Features: **************************************** 1) I2O Controllers are now supported. This includes the Adaptec I2O RAID controllers and the XIOtech Fibre HBAs. 2) A new command has been added to repair volumes that are missing a volume segment. This command is located under the Main Menu under "Repair Commands". More volume repair features will be added in future Storage Manager releases. 3) The NSS Volume Check command has been enhanced to check for more error conditions for Trustees, Directory Quotas and User Space Restrictions. **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** 1) Image & Restore: Storage Manager would incorrectly process the early warning of end of media when writing a filemark to tape. The error would prevent spanning of tapes on certain tape drives. 2) Image & Restore: If a tape rewind failed, NetWare would sometimes hang on certain HAM drivers. This was caused by the device driver stopping the I/O queue. Storage Manager now makes sure that the I/O queue is restarted on I/O errors. 3) NSS: Storage Manager would report an error during Volume Check for NSS Beast Types 19 & 20. This has been corrected. 4) On older versions of NSS, Storage Manager would list an NSS volume as available for Volume Commands. However, when the volume was selected, an error message would be displayed that NSS volumes are not supported. This problem has been fixed. **************************************** Known Limitation (bugs) in this version: **************************************** Most of these limitations will be removed in future releases of Storage Manager. Check our web site, as we often release improved versions of Storage Manager. http://www.portlock.com 1) The image command can image an NSS multi-segment Storage Group volume. The restore command can only restore this NSS volume as a single segment. Storage Manager will convert the multi-segment volume into a single segment volume. 2) The NSS volume resize command can not resize a Storage Group volume. 3) The NSS volume resize command can not resize NSS volumes smaller. However, NSS Volume Copy, NSS Volume Restore, and NSS Partition Convert commands do support resizing NSS volumes smaller. 4) NetWare 5 NSS mirroring is not supported. 5) For NSS version earlier than version 2.97 (NetWare 5.1 SP3), the server sometimes needs to be rebooted to see NSS partitions created with Storage Manager. There is a partition re-scanning bug with NetWare that was fixed in NW51 SP3. 6) Storage Manager does not support NSS volumes created inside a Traditional NetWare volume. 7) NetWare Clustering Services are not supported. 8) When copying an NSS Non-Storage Group Partition to a new Non-Storage Group partition, resizing the volume smaller during the copy is not supported. Copy the partition to a Storage Group to enable resizing the partition smaller during the copy. 9) When copying an NSS Non-Storage Group Volume to a new Non-Storage Group Volume, resizing the volume smaller during the copy is not supported. Copy the partition to a Storage Group to enable resizing the volume smaller during the copy. 10) Storage Manager can not move the starting position of an NSS partition. 11) NSS Storage Group Partition Copy is not supported. The current workaround is to copy the individual NSS volumes using the NSS Volume Copy command. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 2.02 (Oct-30-2001) **************************************** New Features: **************************************** 1) NSS volumes that are in a Non-Storage Group partition can now be converted into a Storage Group. Two methods of conversion are supported: Increase the partition size, or decrease the volume size. Increasing the partition size is the fastest conversion method. 2) Added support for NSS Directory Trees (Directory Quotas). 3) Added support for NSS User Trees (User Space Restrictions). 4) The NSS Type 1 Volume Copy command is now faster when copying to another NSS Type 1 partition. 5) The NSS Menu commands now detects if Salvage is enabled or disabled. 6) The NSS Menu commands now detects if Directory Quotas are enabled or disabled. 7) The NSS Menu commands now detects if User Space Restrictions are enabled or disabled. 8) NSS Type 1 partitions can be resize larger when copying as a new NSS Type 1 partition. Resizing these partitions smaller is only supported when copying to a Type 2 (Storage Group) partition. **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** 1) When checking a large NSS volume and the volume has missing blocks, the software would appear to be hung while checking the free block list. The software now displays a status dialog while scanning the file system. 2) After NetWare deletes an NSS volume from an NSS Type 1 partition the Partition Map command would still display the volume as being present. **************************************** Known Limitation (bugs) in this version: **************************************** Most of these limitations will be removed in future releases of Storage Manager. Check our web site, as we often release improved versions of Storage Manager. http://www.portlock.com 1) The image command can image an NSS multi-segment Storage Group volume. The restore command can only restore this NSS volume as a single segment. Storage Manager will convert the multi-segment volume into a single segment volume. 2) The NSS volume resize command can not resize a Storage Group volume. 3) The NSS volume resize command can not resize NSS volumes smaller. However, NSS Volume Copy, NSS Volume Restore, and NSS Partition Convert commands do support resizing NSS volumes smaller. 4) NetWare 5 NSS mirroring is not supported. 5) For NSS version earlier than version 2.97 (NetWare 5.1 SP3), the server sometimes needs to be rebooted to see NSS partitions created with Storage Manager. There is a partition re-scanning bug with NetWare. 6) Storage Manager does not support NSS volumes created inside a Traditional NetWare volume. 7) NetWare Clustering Services are not supported. 8) When copying an NSS Non-Storage Group Partition to a new Non-Storage Group partition, resizing the volume smaller during the copy is not supported. Copy the partition to a Storage Group to enable resizing the partition smaller during the copy. 9) When copying an NSS Non-Storage Group Volume to a new Non-Storage Group Volume, resizing the volume smaller during the copy is not supported. Copy the partition to a Storage Group to enable resizing the volume smaller during the copy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 2.01 (Oct-15-2001) **************************************** New Features: **************************************** 1) The NSS Volume Copy command has been enhanced to support copying volumes smaller or larger during an NSS volume copy to a Storage Group. **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** 1) When entering a new volume name, the name field would sometimes be initialized with random characters. **************************************** Known Limitation (bugs) in this version: **************************************** 1) The image command can image a multi-segment Storage Group volume. The restore command can only restore this volume as a single segment. Storage Manager will convert the multi-segment volume into a single segment volume. 2) The volume resize command can not resize a Storage Group volume. 3) NetWare 5 NSS mirroring is not supported. 4) For NSS version earlier than version 2.97 (NetWare 5.1 SP3), the server sometimes needs to be rebooted to see NSS partitions created with Storage Manager. There is a partition re-scanning bug with NetWare. 5) Storage Manager does not support NSS volumes created inside a Traditional NetWare volume. 6) NetWare Clustering Services are not supported. 7) When copying an NSS Non-Storage Group Partition to a new Non-Storage Group partition, resizing the volume during the copy is not supported. Copy the partition to a Storage Group to enable resizing. 8) When copying an NSS Non-Storage Group Volume to a new Non-Storage Group Volume, resizing the volume during the copy is not supported. Copy the partition to a Storage Group to enable resizing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 2.0 (Oct-14-2001) **************************************** New Features: **************************************** 1) Full support for NSS partitions and volumes. 2) The Volume Copy command has been enhanced to copy volumes that are corrupted. 3) The Volume Copy command now has the option to copy individual volume segments. **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** 1) If a traditional volume is created with 4 KB block size and the volume has several segments, the Volume Check would fail. **************************************** Known Limitation (bugs) in this version: **************************************** 1) The image command can image a multi-segment Storage Group volume. The restore command can only restore this volume as a single segment. Storage Manager will convert the multi-segment volume into a single segment volume. 2) The volume resize command can not resize a Storage Group volume. 3) NetWare 5 NSS mirroring is not supported. 4) For NSS version earlier than version 2.97 (NetWare 5.1 SP3), the server sometimes needs to be rebooted to see NSS partitions created with Storage Manager. There is a partition re-scanning bug with NetWare. 5) Storage Manager does not support NSS volumes created inside a Traditional NetWare volume. 6) NetWare Clustering Services are not supported. 7) When copying an NSS Non-Storage Group Partition to a new Non-Storage Group partition, resizing the volume during the copy is not supported. Copy the partition to a Storage Group to enable resizing. 8) When copying an NSS Non-Storage Group Volume to a new Non-Storage Group Volume, resizing the volume during the copy is not supported. Copy the partition to a Storage Group to enable resizing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 1.32 (Sept-18-2001) **************************************** New Features: **************************************** 1) DOS: We have released the TCP/IP stack that supports the Novell Client TCP/IP stack that optionally can be installed when the DOS client is installed. 2) TCP/IP: Storage Manager can set itself up to be either a client or a server. This is necessary when one machine does not have a public IP address. 3) TCP/IP: Storage Manager remembers the last IP address entered during runtime. The last IP address is not saved after program exit. 4) When resizing a volume, a new option is asked about defragmenting the directory tables during the resize. We do recommend defragmenting the Primary and Secondary directory tables. However, this can take a while on a very large volume. 5) NetWare 5: Storage Manager now detects NetWare partitions that are missing the new NetWare 5 partition table signature. Storage Manager can also correct this problem. **************************************** Bugs Fixed: **************************************** 1) Restore. When skipping the restore of a traditional volume, the performance display was 0. 2) Restore. When skipping the restore of a traditional volume, the image source was not displayed. 3) Restore. When canceling the skip of a DOS partition, an error would be reported "Unknown volume format in image". 4) Partition Resize. The Compaq Diagnostic partition is displayed as a partition with a single space character. Changed to display as "DP" (short form) or as "Diag" (long form). 5) Restore. When restoring a Diagnostic partition, the menus displayed the partition type as DOS instead of Diagnostic. 6) Restore. If the restore of a traditional NetWare volume is cancelled an error message would be displayed about not being able to delete an NSS volume. Also, the partial NetWare volume was left undeleted. 7) Restore. The TCP/IP code has been enhanced to behave correctly when connections are abruptly terminated. 8) Restore. The TCP/IP code has been enhanced to continue updating the status screens on very slow connections. 9) Image. Changed the image command to put the Compaq Diagnostic partition into the image before the DOS partition. 10) Image: While waiting for a TCP/IP connection, the server utilization was very high. 11) Partition Resize. After resizing a NetWare 5 partition, the NetWare Partition Stamp was not updated. This caused a warning message about mismatched partition sizes. 12) When deleting a traditional NetWare volume, after the volume was deleted, a message was displayed that the volume could not be found. 13) When using TCP/IP and waiting for a connection, if the sender was not already waiting for the connection, the connection would never happen. 14) When a SCSI error occurred, the first two bytes of the returned sense information were overwritten. This caused Storage Manager to report an unknown error when the end of tape was reached. 15) DOS: Added support for the Compaq ASPI driver FWS2ASPI.SYS version 2.06. Note: This ASPI driver is not compatible with other ASPI drivers. To use Compaq ASPI drivers with other ASPI drivers use version 2.05. If another ASPI driver is installed with the Compaq driver version 2.06 we will not be able to see the Compaq driver. 16) During a volume resize, the defragmentation of the directory tables could not be interrupted. 17) DOS: The SCSI Inquiry command would fail on certain ASPI device drivers. This would cause Storage Manager when running under DOS to not see some SCSI devices. 18) DOS: If the BIOS for a SCSI controller was disabled, and an ASPI device driver was loaded, we would report an error for the disk. 19) When restoring a Traditional NetWare volume from an image and the volume is being resized during the restore, under certain conditions corruption could occur. This did not affect NetWare 3. 20) At the end of a volume restore, the Estimated Time Left field would sometimes report a very large number. 21) When restoring a NetWare volume with 4 KB block size and the volume was very large, the software would appear to be hung. The software was processing the FAT tables. A dialog box is now displayed showing improved update status. 22) NW 4.x: After restoring a NetWare volume, NetWare could not see the new volume until the server was rebooted. 23) When deleting a volume segment, and the user cancelled the delete, only the Primary Directory Table was defragmented. The software will now defragment both the Primary and Secondary Directory Tables if a resize operation is interrupted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 1.31 (Sept-04-2001) This release is an extensive update to Storage Manager. Numerous new features and commands have been added as part of the 4 month long public beta. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's New in Release 1.30 (June-18-2001) This is the first public release of the software.