-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 16/11/2015 3:32 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Running gsmartcontrol on a brand new Western Digital hard drive > says that SMART support is unavailable. I was under the impression > that most hard drives have SMART support these days. Given that > Western Digital is a popular company I am a bit shocked that they > are manufacturing hard drives without SMART support. > > Does anyone know of a work around to check the health of this > drive?
It's likely that the drive isn't directly connected to the SATA bus; if it is going through a "bridge" device, be that a USB, Firewire or something else... then there is every chance that your are being denied access as it isn't passing through. Kind Regards AndrewM -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF4EAREIAAYFAlZJYygACgkQqBZry7fv4vtUfgD/eCMtCP/oZ25+pG7fQnhH33/Y tZ6eM4+0iZDUdcKmbHgA/3CJBX7Qqip3ZcujjHV4JN2xRfleEy59az8J4z5+LmxF =qN70 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
