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Ok, bad clarification on my part.
Depending on how the drive is connected/used, SMART may not be
directly accessible w/o changing the physical connection. ( From <
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/#testinghelp >e.g. can not access
SMART thru a raid setup; certain HDD controllers; usb and firewire
busses; etc.)
Not shure if this is the case for the usb2 <hdd pin out configuration>
devices discussed previously.

Craig

On 8/8/06, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org <xcssa-admin@xcssa.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 03 August 2006 17:09, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:
> > Got a suggestion to use an approximation method of ( badblocks -n -v
> > /dev/HDD_DEVICE ) / total blocks on disk.  Good at least for deciding
> > which of the set of similar disks is more usable if SMART isn't
> > supported.
>
> BTW Craig.. Smart supported is on every drive that I've seen (or have worked
> with anyway)  since around 2000.
>
> Tweeks
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