Bruce-
I have had reports of this from my users here and there- its always
on the newest Macs. I've never experienced it on any of the Macs I've
worked on, but from emailing the users it seems that manually turning
SMART on with "-s on" then rerunning smartctl returns the correct
data. I'm not sure why this is. System Profiler and Disk Utility both
return SMART supported. That may be because they are using OS X
specific calls.
-Matt
On Oct 10, 2007, at 16:08 , Bruce Allen wrote:
> Thomas,
>
> This is strange -- you have enabled SMART but it doesn't appear to
> remain
> enabled. I am writing this from an Intel Mac (10.4.10) and
> smartmontools
> works OK on it. I am clueless...
>
> Cheers,
> Bruce
>
> On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, geoffk@... wrote:
>
>> Thomas Kosch <t.kosch@...> writes:
>>
>>> thomaskosch@...$ smartctl -a disk0
>>> smartctl version 5.38 [i386-apple-darwin8.10.1] Copyright (C) 2002-7
>>> Bruce Allen
>>> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>>>
>>> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
>>> Device Model: ST3250824AS Q
>>> Serial Number: 9ND1MG6A
>>> Firmware Version: 3.BQK
>>> User Capacity: 250,059,350,016 bytes
>>> Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P
>>> showall]
>>> ATA Version is: 7
>>> ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not
>>> indicated
>>> Local Time is: Wed Sep 12 19:45:30 2007 CEST
>>> SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
>>> SMART support is: Disabled
>>>
>>> A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or
>>> more '-T permissive' options.
>>> thomaskosch@...$
>>>
>>> What could going wrong?
>>
>> Well, my guess is that something's disabling SMART. I don't think
>> there's anything in the default system that does this, but maybe you
>> did something or had something installed which does it?
>>
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