On Thursday 28 June 2007 01:33, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 05:11:23PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > > Well, camcontrol didn't work either. :-( > > This doesn't come as much of a surprise; camcontrol expects to talk > to a native SCSI device (your drive is ATA). atacontrol expects to > talk to a native ATA device, but via adXX, not via umass or any other > USB interface. > > I don't know of any software even on Windows (for comparison) that > lets you get SMART stats off of an ATA drive in a USB enclosure via > USB.
Speedfan (http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php) lets you read SMART off HDs. Also I don't think smartctl or FreeBSD are to blame for the inability to send SMART commands to the HD - it is the enclosures fault for not remapping the commands. (Which should be trivial, the commands are identical just the transport is different) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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