[smartmontools-support] Unsupported USB bridge [0x04b4:0x6830 (0x001)]

[Frieder F. <fri...@we...>]

Hi,

with an external USB to IDE HDD casing smartctl reports:

# smartctl -a /dev/sdc
smartctl 5.40 2010-10-29 r3201 [x86_64-suse-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

/dev/sdc: Unsupported USB bridge [0x04b4:0x6830 (0x001)]
Smartctl: please specify device type with the -d option.



With an additional "-d usbcypress" smartctl runs just fine:

# ./smartctl -a -d usbcypress /dev/sdc
smartctl 5.40 2010-10-29 r3201 [x86_64-suse-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     IBM/Hitachi Deskstar 120GXP family
Device Model:     IC35L060AVVA07-0

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(someone blogged over a similar situtation over here:
 http://machine-cycle.blogspot.com/2009/11/on-being-smart.html )

Greetings,
Frieder