Re: [smartmontools-support] Strange behavior under MacOSX

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Thomas Kosch <t....@sc...> writes:

> thomaskosch@gryffindor:sm5$ 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@gryffindor:sm5$
> 
> 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?