Il giorno 01/05/13 20.53, Dan ha scritto:
Nothing logged as errors, but then as-is OS X doesn't do
SMART over USB.
AFAIK, SMART is a lousy diagnostic anyway.
It's a better than nothing alarm system, but I wouldn't trust it much.
(No, I don't have a SATA card in the Mac. My choices for
On May 2, 2013, at 2:31 AM, Valter Prahlad wrote:
AFAIK, SMART is a lousy diagnostic anyway.
I agree.
It's a better than nothing alarm system, but I wouldn't trust it much.
I've had drives die that passed SMART right up until the moment they died.
I've seen drives with SMART errors that
At 9:31 AM +0200 05/02/2013, Valter Prahlad wrote:
I'd suggest to go with the Firewire route. Since you have 5 drives
to test, opening the LaCie box and running a real HD diagnostic
tool, seems to me well worth it.
Well, at least for the speed of having another place to spin up the
drives.
At 12:58 PM -0700 05/01/2013, Bruce Johnson wrote:
See here for supported USB devices (ID'ed by the vendor/product IDs
as seen in System Profiler)
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/Supported_USB-Devices
oOo Somehow I missed that list in my perusing. This is good. The
Il giorno 02/05/13 22.03, Dan ha scritto:
Well, at least for the speed of having another place to spin up the
drives. As far as I can tell, these tools don't support SMART over
firewire either.
Usually I use Drive Genius for testing HDs.
IIRC it tests also USB and Firewire drives, but you
Hi all,
I've got 5 500GB SATA HDs that throw a red light when plugged into a
Promise SmartStor NAS box.
Stuck one in a generic external usb dock, and used Disk Utility to
zero it. Nothing logged as errors, but then as-is OS X doesn't do
SMART over USB. Pushed data thru it for a while,
On May 1, 2013, at 11:53 AM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
The tools I found on MacUpdate seem useless; doesn't look like any of 'em
support USB or FW.
Bruce had recommended Smartmontools a while back, I think. Just started
reading thru it. Will this work?
could always use a spare Sh*t beater windows PC (runnin linux or a Live-CD)
to do SMART Checks. its what i do to keep my aging G3 in line.
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Bruce Johnson
john...@pharmacy.arizona.eduwrote:
On May 1, 2013, at 11:53 AM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
The
