On Apr 11, 2005 7:17 AM, Björn Schöpe <bjoern.schoepe@gmx.de> wrote: > Aemilia:/home/bjosch# smartctl -i /dev/sda [...] > Device: Genesys USB to IDE Disk Version: 0002 So is it a SCSI disk, or is it a USB-to-IDE adapter (which the kernel presents as an emulated SCSI disk)? If it is a USB-to-IDE adapter, bear in mind that they don't always support operations beyond simple reads and writes (such as SMART). -- - Charles Lepple