Hi I just bought a usb/sata adapter like this: http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/a7ea/?cpg=ab lsusb -v is below Works OK as a hot-plug SATA disk so I can check what's on that old disk in the corner; but smartctl doesn't work so I can't see if it has any errors, run selftests etc. Kernel is 2.6.27-rc5 (I've also tried older kernels) I plugged a previously zeroed drive in and... root@ash:~ # smartctl -a /dev/sde smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Device: ST332062 0AS Version: Device type: disk Local Time is: Thu Oct 9 21:38:16 2008 BST Device supports SMART and is Enabled Temperature Warning Disabled or Not Supported SMART Health Status: OK Error Counter logging not supported Device does not support Self Test logging I've tried -dscsi and -dsat but they don't work. More info below. David dmesg tail: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... scsi8 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. usb-storage: device found at 2 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access ST332062 0AS PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] 625134827 512-byte hardware sectors (320069 MB) sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 38 00 00 00 sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] 625134827 512-byte hardware sectors (320069 MB) sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 38 00 00 00 sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through sde: unknown partition table sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI disk sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0 root@ash:~ # lsusb -v -s3:3 Bus 003 Device 003: ID 04fc:0c25 Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 2.00 bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 64 idVendor 0x04fc Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd idProduct 0x0c25 bcdDevice 1.03 iManufacturer 2 Sunplus Technology Inc. iProduct 3 USB to Serial-ATA bridge iSerial 1 SAMSUNG HD472712CQ696126 bNumConfigurations 1 Configuration Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 2 wTotalLength 32 bNumInterfaces 1 bConfigurationValue 1 iConfiguration 4 Bulk Only Configuration bmAttributes 0xc0 Self Powered MaxPower 2mA Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 0 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 2 bInterfaceClass 8 Mass Storage bInterfaceSubClass 6 SCSI bInterfaceProtocol 80 Bulk (Zip) iInterface 5 Bulk Only Interface Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes bInterval 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x02 EP 2 OUT bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes bInterval 0 Device Qualifier (for other device speed): bLength 10 bDescriptorType 6 bcdUSB 2.00 bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 64 bNumConfigurations 1 Device Status: 0x0001 Self Powered -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
