On 04/14/18 13:09, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > On Fri, 2018-04-13 at 05:47 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 04/12/18 21:05, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: >>> Seagate's SeaTools for Linux won't start on my system. The file is rather >>> old and >>> in a funky format, but it looks like it ought to run. Nevertheless, it >>> won't run. >>> Can anyone tell me what's going on? Here's what happens: >> I suppose the larger question is, why use an old tool when most drives these >> days >> support S.M.A.R.T. ? I think SMART came into being around 2003. > A very good question. This drive, a Seagate USB Backup Plus Portable Drive, > doesn't seem to support SMART: Here's a try: > # smartctl --xall -T permissive /dev/sdc > smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [x86_64-linux-4.15.15-300.fc27.x86_64] > (local build) > Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org > > Read Device Identity failed: scsi error unsupported field in scsi command > > === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === > Device Model: [No Information Found] > Serial Number: [No Information Found] > Firmware Version: [No Information Found] > Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] > ATA Version is: [No Information Found] > Local Time is: Fri Apr 13 21:56:30 2018 PDT > SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 82-83 don't show if > SMART supported. > SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 85-87 don't show if > SMART is enabled. > A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T > permissive' options. > > I'm trying to get SeaTools for DOS, which is a self booting test suite, > intended to boot from a CD-ROM, running on a flash drive, but so far > without success. > > The problem that started all this is that the drive, which I use for > backup, has started making an alarming beeping noise. After not using > it for a while the noise has gone away, and I have made another backup > successfully. Time to get a replacement; but I'm still curious what's > going on with the drive. > That's a bummer.
If you use "parted /dev/sdc" and "print". It should tell you the make/model of the drive. -- Conjecture is just a conclusion based on incomplete information. It isn't a fact.
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