diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2863a3c..1f4f836 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -13,3 +13,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ## [1.4.0] - 2007-02-08
 ### Changed
 - If a volume didn't have a known state, it just wouldn't show that volume, it now exits with errorcode3 and outputs as "unknown state"
+## [1.4.1] - 2007-02-14
+### Changed
+- Patch by Christoph Schug applied to replace two (cut) systemcalls with one (sed) when getting DEVICESTRING.
+- Added quotes in various places for consistency
+- Don't set state to unknown if state is already critical (for code added in 1.4)
+- unset $ERR before doing anything to avoid problems if the variable is already set
diff --git a/check_smartarray.sh b/check_smartarray.sh
index 9abe278..dca4ed4 100644
--- a/check_smartarray.sh
+++ b/check_smartarray.sh
@@ -1,21 +1,22 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # NRPE check for Proliant SmartArray Controllers (ciss)
 # Written by: Søren Klintrup <soren at klintrup.dk>
-# version 1.4.0
+# version 1.4.1
 
-PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
-DEVICES=$(camcontrol devlist|grep "COMPAQ RAID"|sed -Ee 's/.*(pass[0-9]{1,3}).*/\1/')
+PATH="/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin"
+DEVICES="$(camcontrol devlist|grep "COMPAQ RAID"|sed -Ee 's/.*(pass[0-9]{1,3}).*/\1/')"
 unset ERRORSTRING
 unset OKSTRING
+unset ERR
 
 for DEVICE in ${DEVICES}
 do
  DEVICENAME="$(camcontrol devlist|grep ${DEVICE}|sed -Ee 's/.*(da[0-9]{1,3}).*/\1/')"
- DEVICESTRING=$(camcontrol inquiry ${DEVICE} -D|cut -d '<' -f 2|cut -d '>' -f 1)
+ DEVICESTRING="$(camcontrol inquiry ${DEVICE} -D|sed -n -e 's/^[^<]*<\([^>]*\)>.*$/\1/p')"
  if [ "$(echo ${DEVICESTRING}|tr A-Z a-z|sed -Ee 's/.*(rea|int|rec|fai|ok).*/\1/')" = "" ]
  then
   ERRORSTRING="${ERRORSTRING} | ${DEVICENAME}: unknown state"
-  ERR = 3
+  if ! [ "${ERR}" = 2 ];then ERR=3;fi
  else
   case $(echo ${DEVICESTRING}|tr A-Z a-z|sed -Ee 's/.*(rea|int|rec|fai|ok).*/\1/') in
    int)