Re: smartmontools on external hdd

2005-04-10 Thread Charles Lepple
On Apr 11, 2005 7:17 AM, Björn Schöpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aemilia:/home/bjosch# smartctl -i /dev/sda [...] > Device: Genesys USB to IDE Disk Version: 0002 So is it a SCSI disk, or is it a USB-to-IDE adapter (which the kernel presents as an emulated SCSI disk)? If it is a USB-to-IDE adap

Re: smartmontools on external hdd

2005-04-10 Thread Guido Guenther
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 01:17:23PM +0200, Björn Schöpe wrote: > unable to fetch IEC (SMART) mode page [unsupported field in scsi command] > A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more > '-T permissive' options. Did you try -T permissive? -- Guido signature.asc Descri

smartmontools on external hdd

2005-04-10 Thread Björn Schöpe
Hi! I've already posted here on behalf of my problems with an external scsi-hdd, but still I did not resolve it. Today, after a system re-installation I installed smartmontools again to check the external hdd. I have done it before and everything worked fine, but today I got the output that smar