View Issue Details
| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0001342 | SpeedFan | S.M.A.R.T. | public | 2009-01-26 11:54 | 2009-02-10 16:36 |
| Reporter | discostu | Assigned To | alfredo | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | acknowledged | Resolution | open | ||
| Platform | Abit NF7-S v2.0 | OS | Windows XP SP3 | OS Version | 5.1.2600 |
| Product Version | 4.35 | ||||
| Summary | 0001342: S.M.A.R.T. information is unavailable when Speedfan is running under limited user account credentials | ||||
| Description | When the Speedfan main executable is started under the credentials of a limited user account, S.M.A.R.T. information is unavailable for any HDD installed into the system; the drive combobox is empty. However if Speedfan is started with Administrator credentials, then S.M.A.R.T. information is available for both hard disk drives connected to the system. As far as I know, this behavior is similar in all Speedfan versions up to 4.36. All other features besides S.M.A.R.T. monitoring work as expected, irrespective of whether Speedfan is running with administrator or limited user account credentials. | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | 1. Start Speedfan with limited user account credentials 2. Access S.M.A.R.T. information tab Results: the drive combobox is empty; S.M.A.R.T. information is unavailable. | ||||
| Additional Information | Both drives are Samsung SP1614N P-ATA models. One drive is connected as a Master on IDE channel 0. The other drive is connected via the Abit Serillel (?) connector that came with my NF7-S motherboard to the SiL 3112 S-ATA controller at channel 0. FYI: It is possible to retrieve S.M.A.R.T. information without Administrator credentials by using IOCTL_STORAGE_QUERY_PROPERTY, as demonstrated e.g. by DiskId32: http://www.winsim.com/diskid32/diskid32.cpp | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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I assume your using Vista? It is absolutely normal that S.M.A.R.T. data can only be read when Speedfan runs with Admin rights. This is due to Vista and not a Speedfan problem. |
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As noted in the issue attributes, I'm running Windows XP Professional SP3. I have written some sample code to test the before mentioned IOCTL code and I can confirm that this approach allows S.M.A.R.T. data retrieval under limited credentials on Windows XP. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-01-26 11:54 | discostu | New Issue | |
| 2009-01-26 11:54 | discostu | Status | new => assigned |
| 2009-01-26 11:54 | discostu | Assigned To | => alfredo |
| 2009-02-08 11:57 | norman02us | Note Added: 0004394 | |
| 2009-02-09 20:50 | discostu | Note Added: 0004401 | |
| 2009-02-10 16:36 | alfredo | Status | assigned => acknowledged |
