Phil Richcreek wrote: > New user of smartctl. I found other posts for backup+ but not sure > whether the drive is in the database. Will I be able to monitor this drive?
Most WD USB drives work with '-d sat' option. > smartctl 5.43 2012-06-30 r3573 [i686-w64-mingw32-win7(64)-sp1] (sf-5.43-1) This version of smartctl is very old. Please update to 6.4 or a recent daily build[1]. > ... > Vendor: Seagate > Product: Backup+ Desk > Revision: 0342 Normally smartctl should report an unknown USB ID but this device is detected as SCSI. Did you install a WD specific driver? Please provide output of 'smartctl -r ioctl,2 -i ...' as attachment. Thanks, Christian [1] http://builds.smartmontools.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go from Idea to Many App Stores Faster with Intel(R) XDK Give your users amazing mobile app experiences with Intel(R) XDK. Use one codebase in this all-in-one HTML5 development environment. Design, debug & build mobile apps & 2D/3D high-impact games for multiple OSs. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=254741911&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Smartmontools-database mailing list Smartmontools-database@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/smartmontools-database
