On Mar 21, 2010, at 9:02 PM, John Carmonne wrote:
The seagate site includes Apple and all the OS's as tabbed choices while filling out the online form, so the Apple PC issue are no problem besides I think the S.M.A.R.T is the test bed factor for the drives, I understand the drive is generating the warning and not the machine??
SMART warnings are generated by the controller onboard the drive, yes. *Reading* that data requires the native controller on the host, which is why you can[t access SMART data via USB enclosures. SMART was designed for use on internal system and data drives.
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