Tejun Heo wrote:
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.
..
That may be true, or not. Try "hdparm -I /dev/sde" on it.
If that *works*, then the USB interface *does* support SAT!
Many, many new USB enclosures now have the modern InitIO bridge chips with SAT.
Cheers
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