David Greaves wrote: > 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 The USB bridge should support SAT (SCSI-ATA translation) and many don't. Nothing much can be done about it. The hardware just don't know how to do it. -- tejun -- 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
