I got a new external hard drive enclosure with JMicron USB to ATA bridge inside. Device id is 152d:0567.
smartctl works fine with -d sat. smartctl -d sat -a /dev/sdb smartctl 6.4 2014-10-07 r4002 [x86_64-linux-3.18.2] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: ST500LM021-1KJ152 Serial Number: W620TPJX LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 07c449c91 Firmware Version: 0002LIM1 User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes [500 GB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm Form Factor: 2.5 inches Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4 SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s) Local Time is: Sun Mar 15 20:25:48 2015 CET SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled And the output of lsusb. lsusb -vs 001:008 Bus 001 Device 008: ID 152d:0567 JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron USA Technology Corp. Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 2.10 bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 64 idVendor 0x152d JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron USA Technology Corp. idProduct 0x0567 bcdDevice 1.14 iManufacturer 1 JMicron iProduct 2 USB to ATA/ATAPI Bridge iSerial 3 762040A8 bNumConfigurations 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Smartmontools-database mailing list Smartmontools-database@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/smartmontools-database