On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Richer, Mark (CIV) <mhricher@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Generally it's better to connect the bare metal drive to an internal SATA
> connection to run smartctl. If the short test results are good, run. The
> long test. There are
Agreed, it is better to connect the drive to internal SATA ports to test.
Maybe the power adapter/source for the external enclosure isn't supplying
enough power?
> versions of smartctl for various OSes but you can also boot from any
> optical or USB media that has smartctl on it or can be downloaded to it
> (e.g. I have done this with a Fedora livecd and then installed the tools.)
>
> Mark
>
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