Public bug reported: When opening gnome-disks and selecting my internal hard disk, it tells me that "SMART is not enabled". After enabling it with smartctl, I could see its values using the command-line. Still gnome-disks keeps telling me that "SMART is not enabled", even after several reboots.
$ sudo smartctl -d sat -i /dev/sda smartctl 5.43 2012-06-30 r3573 [x86_64-linux-3.8.0-29-generic] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-12 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: HGST HTS725050A7E630 Serial Number: TF0500Y91Z1YDL LU WWN Device Id: 5 000cca 76cdbc1f3 Firmware Version: GH2OA420 User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes [500 GB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 6 Local Time is: Mon Sep 16 18:29:26 2013 CEST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled ** Affects: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Attachment added: "gnome-disks-nosmart.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1226119/+attachment/3823954/+files/gnome-disks-nosmart.png ** Package changed: libatasmart (Ubuntu) => gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1226119 Title: "SMART is not enabled" in disks, according to smartctl it is To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-disk-utility/+bug/1226119/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
