Hi all,
I've got 5 500GB SATA HDs that throw a red light when plugged into a
Promise SmartStor NAS box.
Stuck one in a generic external usb dock, and used Disk Utility to
zero it. Nothing logged as errors, but then as-is OS X doesn't do
SMART over USB. Pushed data thru it for a while, then I moved it to
the NAS, where it now seems ok (green light and not throwing errors
to the log ?yet?).
I'm going to do the same to the other drives. ug. 1.5 days to zero
each. But I'd like some way to view any low-level errors being
produced.
The tools I found on MacUpdate seem useless; doesn't look like any of
'em support USB or FW.
Bruce had recommended Smartmontools a while back, I think. Just
started reading thru it. Will this work?
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools
QuickSilver 2002, OS X 10.5.8.
(No, I don't have a SATA card in the Mac. My choices for SATA are
the external USB dock or I can crack open a LaCie D2 Quadra box for
Firewire.)
Thx,
- Dan.
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