Re: [smartmontools-support] How check USB drive from context menu?

[BitBucket <fil...@gm...>]

Christian:

Thanks.

Your comment suggests putting some code into the .bat file itself -- the 
context menu hooks in the registry only invoke the .bat with args. 
Perhaps a WMI snippet in the .bat would resolve this.

--Roy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christian Franke" <Chr...@t-...>
To: "BitBucket" <fil...@gm...>
Cc: <sma...@li...>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 0:17
Subject: Re: [smartmontools-support] How check USB drive from context 
menu?


BitBucket wrote:
> Hi:
> I've installed the latest Windows exe
> (smartmontools-5.39.1-1.win32-setup.exe) with the context menu
> options. They work as expected for ATA drives, but not for USB drives.
> The required smartctl commands are different depending on ATA or USB
> in my case:
> 1) ATA smartctl -a /dev/hda
> 2) USB smartctl -a -d sat,12 /dev/sdc
> But when invoked to read USB drive on K:, here is the output. It's
> obviously not adding the '-d sat,12' string to the command, causing
> the drive to be undetected.
> Output error
> --------------------------------------------------
> smartctl -A K:\
> smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [i686-pc-mingw32-xp-sp3]
> (sf-win32-5.39.1-1)
> Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, 
> http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
> K:\: Unable to read USB device ID
> Smartctl: please specify device type with the -d option.
> Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary
> Press any key to continue . . .
> --------------------------------------------------
> How or where do I modify the code to make this adapt to a USB drive?

USB ID detection uses WMI and requires a physical drive name. Windows
drive context menu does not support physical drive names. I didn't find
an easy way to map logical drive letters to physical drive names yet.

Thanks,
Christian