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WinDLGRelease Notes

For Version 1.29

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Version: 1.29Release Date: 6/15/2015

Features Added:<Feature Name> None<Description of Feature>

ITRs Fixed: ITR 18032. Added support for detecting and ignoring ZAC (Zoned ATA Commands) drives.

Now drives discovered via ATA Pass Through are reported as “ATA” instead of “IDE”.

Other Fixes or Issues: None



ITRs Fixed: ITR 15266. Fixed a problem that caused tests on Windows 8 to fail while testing a TRS

drive on an AMD PC. ITR 15459. Fixed a problem that caused a drive’s volumes to be locked and inaccessible

after Quick Test or Extended Test is run. ITR 15916. Modified the drive discovery code to use SCSI Read Capacity to determine the

capacity of USB drives.




ITRs Fixed: ITR 15069. Fixed a problem in which the Write Zeros test would fail with a “Delete

Partitions error” on Windows XP when a drive has no partitions.


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ITRs Fixed: Branded Products ITR 89252. Fixed a problem that caused SMART Attributes to be

reported improperly for external drives connected via USB or IEEE 1394 (FireWire). ITRs 14338 & 14418. Fixed a problem in which WinDlg may display an inaccurate

Estimated Time Remaining for the Quick Test or the Extended Test.

Other Fixes or Issues: Updated WinDlg’s help.htm and smart.htm files (these are WinDlg’s standard help file and

SMART attributes help file) to fix inaccuracies, misspellings, grammar, and reflect changes in how tests operate.

Updated WinDlg’s icon file: now it embeds 16x16, 32x32, and 48x48 icon bitmaps.



ITRs Fixed: ITR 12854. Fixed a problem that caused errors to be reported when you perform Write

Zeros on an MBR partition on Windows Vista and later. Added more supported SMART attribute names.

ITR 12838. Modified the installer package (setup.exe) to install and launch WinDlg with administrator privilege.

ITR 11005. Retrieve the Bytes per Sector value from the ATA Identify Device buffer. ITR 10989. Modified the "no drive connected" error message. ITR 10829. Modified to support hybrid (SSHD) drives. Also fixed a problem that caused the

wrong sector to be overwritten with zeroes when the user selects the repair option after bad sectors are detected while running the Extended Test.


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ITRs Fixed: ITR 6494. Added support for SAS drive Serial Numbers.




ITRs Fixed: ITR 4963. Re-inserted the Cable Test, but removed the read and write I/O operations that it

performs.




ITRs Fixed: ITR 4963. Removed the Cable Test operations.


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ITRs Fixed: ITR 4363. Added support for drives with 4K sectors. ITR 4419. Errors when writing zeroes to GPT partitions.




ITRs Fixed: ITR 4232. Physical drives don’t appear under Windows 7. Previous versions did not

address enough products.




ITRs Fixed: ITR 4232. Physical drives don’t appear under Windows 7.

Other Fixes or Issues: False failures were occurring when performing the cable test in version 1.16 and 1.17.

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Features Added:<Feature Name> 64-Bit Support<Description of Feature> Support added for devices exceeding 2.2 TB.

ITRs Fixed: ITR 3285. Add 64-bit support.




ITRs Fixed: ITR 3140. SMART data not displayed correctly when connected through 1394 interface. ITR 3239. Cable test error reported during quick test. ITR 3278. Write zeroes test failing for drives with capacities greater than 2.2 TB.


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Installation Procedure:

To install WinDLG, double-click WinDLG’s setup.exe and follow the screen prompts. On Windows Vista or later (like Win7, Win8 and Win8.1), you may need to right click WinDLG’s setup.exe and select "Run as administrator".

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