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 -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://ddumont.wordpress.com/ -o- irc: dod at irc.debian.org