I have several disks connected via USB. Most of them work with gnome- disks' SMART interface. But for one of them, I get "operation not permitted". smartctl in the terminal works fine for that disk.
** Also affects: gnome-disk-utility via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757784 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1540110 Title: gnome-disk-utility (shown as "Disks") shows SMART option grayed for USB connect disks despite being available. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-disk-utility/+bug/1540110/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs