Re: [smartmontools-support] FireWire

[Manfred S. <man...@gm...>]

Georges,

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Datum: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:07:58 +0200
Von: "Georges Vanhove" <geo...@pa...>
An: sma...@li...
Betreff: [smartmontools-support] FireWire

> 
> Sir,
> 
> I would like to use S.M.A.R.T.technology to monitor an ATA HDD (Seagate)
> in external enclosure (Firewire connected) .
> 
> It looks as SmartMonTools is not designed for external HDD's ; as you
> wrote on Sourceforge : 
> 

No, this no software problem, and it's no operating system problem,
it's a _device_ problem, more precisely a controller problem.
If the controller does not implement the necessary commands to
pass smart commands to the disk, there is nothing smartmontools can do.
As far as I know, no firewire or usb controller supports the 
necessary commands (please correct me if I'm wrong).

Manfred


> FireWire, USB, and SATA disks/systems
> -------------------------------------- 
> " As for USB and FireWire (ieee1394) disks and tape drives, the news is
> not good..."
> 
> 
> 
> Do you know some turnaround or do you have some suggestion ?
> 
> Thank you.
> Best regards,
> 
> Georges Vanhove
> Belgium 
> 
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