Re: [smartmontools-support] USB External Hard Drive: SMART

[Christian F. <Chr...@t-...>]

Aleck Müller wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have tried my new drive with the following command:
> ...
> A pare of the last messages seemed quite strange to me and I took the advice:
> sudo smartctl -d sat -s on -a /dev/sdb
> smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>
> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> Device Model:     WDC WD5000BMVW-11AMCS0
> Serial Number:    WD-WX61A1117910
> Firmware Version: 01.01A01
> User Capacity:    500 107 862 016 bytes
> Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
> ATA Version is:   8
> ATA Standard is:  Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
> Local Time is:    Thu Aug  4 02:38:42 2011 ALMT
> SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
> SMART support is: Enabled
>
> === START OF ENABLE/DISABLE COMMANDS SECTION ===
> SMART Enabled.
> SMART Disabled. Use option -s with argument 'on' to enable it.
> -----------------------------------
> Now a pare of the last messages seemes me even more strange :-(
> What is wrong?
>    

The SMART Enabled check in smartctl was reworked after 5.38. Please test 
a more recent version if possible.

Thanks,
Christian