To whom it may concern, https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Supported_USB-Devices asks that I post any information on unlisted devices here. Here's the output of sudo smartctl -i /dev/sdb1 for my Buffalo HD-PCU2:
smartctl 6.4 2014-10-07 r4002 [x86_64-linux-3.16.0-4-amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Vendor: BUFFALO Product: HD-PCU2 Revision: 0108 User Capacity: 1,000,204,885,504 bytes [1.00 TB] Logical block size: 512 bytes Serial number: 00000000000000000000 Device type: disk Local Time is: Sun Sep 4 18:06:27 2016 CEST SMART support is: Unavailable - device lacks SMART capability. No smartcl for that device I guess? All the best Hauke ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Smartmontools-database mailing list Smartmontools-database@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/smartmontools-database