Re: [smartmontools-support]Re Mac OS X and smart Tools

[Bruce A. <ba...@gr...>]

Asher,

> I enjoyed your site!
> 
> I am planning to expand my arrays of external hard drives but I would 
> like to be able to have SMART monitoring. At present I have a lot of 
> firewire drives (400/800/USB-2) that dont currently support SMART.
> 
> What can I buy that will work so I can use this for my interval back up 
> drives.

At the moment, firewire drives won't pass SMART information 'over the
wire'.  so there's nothing that will do this.  In the future this will
change but it is (I am guessing) at least a year or two away.

Bruce