On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Steve Holdoway <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 20:45 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > Warning: device does not support Error Logging > Error SMART Error Log Read failed > Smartctl: SMART Error Log Read Failed > Warning: device does not support Self Test Logging > Error SMART Error Self-Test Log Read failed > Smartctl: SMART Self Test Log Read Failed > Device does not support Selective Self Tests/Logging > > smartctl may be the answer... in a year or two. Not now. > > Its been a while since I saw a hard drive that didn't support smart reporting, so its likely a system misconfiguration. Exceptions being : a) Bizzare system harddrive controller that is only partially supported in linux b) Strange hard drive enclosures attached via USB so the required signals to transmit SMART data don't work. However, case b has also become less prevalent of late. -- Kent perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA nocomil.i...@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );
