On 06/07/2011 10:11 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > SMART is only available in ATA Version 3 Revision 3 or greater.
> > We will try to proceed in spite of this.
> > SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 82-83 don't show
if SMART supported.
> > Checking for SMART support by trying SMART ENABLE
command.
> > SMART ENABLE appeared to work! Continuing.
> > SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 85-87 don't show
if SMART is enabled.
> > A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more
'-T permissive' options
> > -------------------------------------------------------
>
> Here we should perhaps try to improve the ATA emulation.
But this is scsi-disk - what does smartctl even try here?
smartctl has to try anyway because libata shows IDE disks as /dev/sdX.
I tried smartctl on a USB drive and it will happily run (and show no
SMART support).
Paolo
