STB Suite version 8.6 Release Notes
Additions and Fixes to the STB Suite
STB New Features
- SES Element->PHY->WWN Map Display
- LSI RAID SMP Passthrough function
- SATA & SAS drive Set/Report Identifying Information
- Add Report Supported Op Codes function
- Updated SAS-specific Log Pages
- Added function to “Short-Stroke” or change the capacity of SATA drives
- View SATA drive Device Configuration Overlay (DCO) Feature Set settings
STB Fixes
- Changed the install process to set the default driver to STBTrace
- Extended the timeout on FORMAT commands to 30 hours
- Fixed SATA WWN display
- User Defined CDB
- SATA SMART Data Updates
Additions and Fixes to the Disk Manufacturing Module
DMM New Features
- All Advanced Options settings are per test step and will be saved/loaded when a sequence file is save or loaded.
- Threshold screening settings from the Test Thresholds tab are now saved in the test sequence files, also on a per-test basis.
- Advanced Options settings can be viewed/changed
- “On-Error” settings are saved per-test and are shown in the View Test Sequence Details view
- DMM implements LARGE transfers
- Added “Number of Drives Under Test” to DMM .log files
DMM Fixes
- Increased FORMAT command timeout to 30 hours to accommodate 3TB drives.
- Fixed integer size issues in Enhanced Workstation, Streaming, OLTP,FileServer, and WebServer tests to work with 3TB drives.
- Fixed Right-Click on drive->Blink This Drives LED to blink the LED if it’s there
- “Blocks Transferred” is displayed with comma’s on screen and in log files
Additions and Fixes to the Developers Toolbox
DTB New Features
- Ability to fail a test on a user-defined maximum latency
- VBPSSL added STBTrace driver
- VCPSSL: Command-Probability-Sequencer Test, each command can now use pattern eUserPatBinary
- VCPSSL Special Options
DTB Fixes
- DTB implements LARGE transfers
- VCPSSL memory problem for shipping payload data to the drive fixed
Additions and Fixes to the Bus Analyzer Module
BAM New Features
- Added full buffer editing functionality to the BAM Raw Data tab