Re: Smartctl issues in Cygwin with elevated terminal

On 13/09/2022 18:23, Christian Franke wrote: Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: I recently noticed that smartctl only works when the Cygwin Terminal isn't run as administrator - the opposite way round to Linux where you need superuser privileges to access the disk. With Administrator privileges on

Re: Smartctl issues in Cygwin with elevated terminal

Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: I recently noticed that smartctl only works when the Cygwin Terminal isn't run as administrator - the opposite way round to Linux where you need superuser privileges to access the disk. With Administrator privileges on Windows 11, I get: "Read Device Identity Fai

Re: Smartctl issues in Cygwin with elevated terminal

On 13/09/2022 10:11, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: Just adding a note to say this seems to only occur on Windows 10 and 11. Hi there, I recently noticed that smartctl only works when the Cygwin Terminal isn't run as administrator - the opposite way round to Linux where you need superuser pri

Smartctl issues in Cygwin with elevated terminal

Hi there, I recently noticed that smartctl only works when the Cygwin Terminal isn't run as administrator - the opposite way round to Linux where you need superuser privileges to access the disk. With Administrator privileges on Windows 11, I get: "Read Device Identity Failure Input/Output e