What's new in Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics 1.37.0
Apr 8, 2020- Changes:
- Description change for Erase and Quick Erase on SMR drives
New in Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics 1.36.0 (Oct 31, 2018)
- Changes:
- Maximum detection of physical drive limit moved from 8 to 32
New in Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics 1.31.0 (Nov 23, 2016)
- ITR 20864:
- Do not support new WD SATA SSD with model starting with “WDC WDS”. Proper support is done through the WD Dashboard
New in Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics 1.29.0 (Nov 20, 2015)
- 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”.
New in Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics 1.28.0 (Jun 8, 2015)
- 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.
New in Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics 1.27.0 (Jun 8, 2015)
- 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.
New in Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics 1.26.0 (Jun 8, 2015)
- 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.
New in Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics 1.25.0 (Jun 8, 2015)
- 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.
New in Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics 1.24.0 (Jun 8, 2015)
- ITRs Fixed:
- ITR 6494. Added support for SAS drive Serial Numbers.
New in Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics 1.23.0 (Jun 8, 2015)
- ITRs Fixed:
- ITR 4963. Re-inserted the Cable Test, but removed the read and write I/O operations that it performs.
New in Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics 1.22.0 (Jun 8, 2015)
- ITRs Fixed:
- ITR 4963. Removed the Cable Test operations.
New in Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics 1.21.0 (Jun 8, 2015)
- ITRs Fixed:
- ITR 4363. Added support for drives with 4K sectors.
- ITR 4419. Errors when writing zeroes to GPT partitions.
New in Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics 1.19.0 (Jun 8, 2015)
- ITRs Fixed:
- ITR 4232. Physical drives don’t appear under Windows 7. Previous versions did not address enough products.
New in Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics 1.18.0 (Jun 8, 2015)
- 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.