Diskovery Changelog

What's new in Diskovery 0.9.11.0 Beta

Jul 21, 2021
  • Added support for extracting NVMe drive details via SCSI tunneling for ASMedia
  • chipsets, e.g Samsing T7 external drives
  • Added vendor detection for YMTC, Galaxy Microsystems, KindDian, Lenovo, Netac, Sabrent,
  • Asgard, Derler, MG and Elegant
  • Added enclosure detection for AVD, SSK and Marvell.

New in Diskovery 0.9.9.0 Beta (Aug 30, 2019)

  • Changed the UI to show additional NTFS info, including the cluster size
  • Resolved an issue with mis-detecting certain HGST HDDs as SSDs
  • Updated the build toolset used for compiling the program

New in Diskovery 0.9.8.1 Beta (Aug 14, 2018)

  • Added vendor detection for Deotera, Silicon Power, Kingfast, MaxDigital
  • Added enclosure detection for Intenso
  • Updated SMART tables for Maxtor, Seagate, Samsung, Crucial and PNY
  • Added Acronis Virtual Drives to the ignore list
  • Fixed NVMe detection when reported device bus is not NVMe
  • Fixed SSD mis-detection of Maxtor drives
  • Fixed SSD detection of ADATA drives
  • Fixed SSD detection on pre Windows 7 machines
  • Fixed loading of previously saved scan snapshots

New in Diskovery 0.9.7.1 Beta (Feb 3, 2018)

  • Added detection of bogus CSMI and HPSA/CISS support in controller drivers

New in Diskovery 0.9.7.0 Beta (Jan 31, 2018)

  • Added extra validation of ATA IDENTIFY responses
  • Added more cases for when to query for NVMe data
  • Added vendor detection for ASMedia, Lacie, Netac enclosures
  • Improved vendor detection for SK Hynix drives
  • Updated SMART tables for HDD: Hitachi, Toshiba SSD: ADATA, Acasis, Apple, Corsair, Galaxy, Liteon, PNY, Samsung, Smartbuy, Transcend, WDC

New in Diskovery 0.9.6.1 Beta (Jan 10, 2017)

  • Added support for NVMe drives
  • Added vendor detection for VmWare, MTRON
  • Updated SMART table for Kingston
  • Fixed an issue with RAID volumes whereby a secondary drive would show up as 'unreachable'
  • Fixed a couple of cosmetic UI issues

New in Diskovery 0.9.5.0 Beta (Sep 23, 2016)

  • Added support for Acasis, SATAWire and Silicon Power enclosures
  • Added vendor detection for JMCR, Computex, Intenso and HDC
  • Added and/or updated SMART tables for Fujitsu, Patriot, Intenso, HDC, Mushkin, Silicon Power, Corsair, Liteon CV1*, Samsung PM*, Micron M550/600 and Transcend JetFlash drives

New in Diskovery 0.9.4.0 Beta (May 17, 2016)

  • Revised SMART interpretation table for HGST drives
  • Added vendor detection for HornetTek, Inateck, Initio, MAIWO and Micronet enclosures
  • Added vendor detection for Buffalo drives and StableBit DrivePool
  • Fixed an issue with displaying partition tables
  • Revised right-click "copy to clipboard" option to copy just the value when used for key/value lines * Removed RAID detection based on the "bus" type as it's prone to false positives (e.g. with LSI controllers)

New in Diskovery 0.9.3.0 Beta (May 11, 2016)

  • Revised SMART interpretation table for Intel SSDs
  • App's window can now be maximized
  • Fixed an issue with displaying of the byte counts
  • Fixed an issue with loading of saved snapshots

New in Diskovery 0.9.2.0 Beta (May 11, 2016)

  • Revised SMART interpration tables for OCZ drives
  • Added SMART interpetation table for Apple SSDs
  • Added vendor detection for Patriot Memory flash card

New in Diskovery 0.9.1.8 Beta (May 5, 2016)

  • Comprehensive rework of the SMART attribute decoding module including 28 new vendor-specific interpretation tables
  • Numerous improvements to how SMART attributes are displayed in the UI
  • Model/serial information is now pulled from CSMI pass-through queries if needed
  • Updated CSMI module to better deal with partly broken Adaptec drivers
  • Updated CSMI module to validate checksums on IDENTIFY and SMART responses
  • IDENTIFY/SMART blocks with bad checksums are now logged
  • Parent device details are now also queried and logged
  • Added support for saving/loading scan results
  • Switched to a new icon
  • Added vendor detection for:
  • SSD drives Intel, Kingston, Liteon, Micron, Mushkin, OCZ, SanDisk, SK hynix and Zheino
  • HDD drives ExcelStor, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Maxtor, MDT and Packard Bell
  • Flash drives Silicon Power
  • RAM drives Romex, Bond Disk
  • Virtual drives VirtualBox and Xen Project
  • USB enclosures Apricorn, ASMT, Fantom, Norelsys, Transcend and Seagate

New in Diskovery 0.9.0.11 Pre-Beta (May 5, 2016)

  • Added vendor detection for Corsair Neutron GTX, Hitachi drives and Xen VM devices
  • Added code to display current SATA signaling speed based on \
  • the info from IDENTIFY *and* from the drive's CSMI/PHY data
  • Rearranged "Drive information" section a bit for a more compact view

New in Diskovery 0.9.0.10 Pre-Beta (May 5, 2016)

  • Added vendor detection for Samsung NVMe drives
  • Added support for unformatted/corrupted volumes
  • Added support for RAM volumes, e.g. SoftPerfect RAM Drive
  • Added support for RAM drives, e.g. Dataram RAMDisk
  • Additional volume queries via Mount Manager API

New in Diskovery 0.9.0.9 Pre-Beta (May 5, 2016)

  • Added SMART attributes decodings for Crucial SSD
  • Added "Feedback" submenu
  • Tweaked vendor IDs for Crucial_ and KINGSTON
  • Reduced verbosity of the log around IDENTIFY and GET_SMART_xxx queries
  • Fixed -c argument support for non-fully-qualified paths

New in Diskovery 0.9.0.8 Pre-Beta (May 5, 2016)

  • Added vendor detection for Crucial M4-xxx, ADATA and HGST drives
  • Added extra SMART attribute decodings (SSD)
  • Added code to handle buggy USB host drivers that report invalid connection speed info (ASMedia)
  • Extent-less volumes (e.g. TC mounts) are now listed under Logical Volumes
  • Fixed a typo in the UI
  • Fixed partition listing for SoftPerfect RamDisk drives
  • Fixed an issue with log reporting when there's not I-net connectivity
  • Default to using Notepad for log viewing unless Ctrl is pressed

New in Diskovery 0.9.0.7 Pre-Beta (May 5, 2016)

  • Added vendor/product detection for Liteon, Plextor, SanDisk, Crucial, Transcend and Samsung drives
  • Added extra SMART attribute decodings

New in Diskovery 0.9.0.6 Pre-Beta (May 5, 2016)

  • Added support for NVMe bus type
  • Added vendor/product detection for Samsung SSD drives
  • Added request for the scan log on the 1st exit