On Monday 16 November 2015 00:17:20 kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> The hard drive is placed in a Dual Bay external hard drive docking
> station which is connected via USB to my computer. Is that a problem?

Probably.

smartctl man page gives some hint. See --device option

Use lsusb (may be with -v option) to find the type of usb bridge you have.

HTH

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