Re: no SMART support for western digital drive
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On 16/11/2015 3:32 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> Running gsmartcontrol on a brand new Western Digital hard drive
> says that SMART support is unavailable. I was under the impression
> that most hard drives have SMART support these days. Given that
> Western Digital is a popular company I am a bit shocked that they
> are manufacturing hard drives without SMART support.
>
> Does anyone know of a work around to check the health of this
> drive?
It's likely that the drive isn't directly connected to the SATA bus;
if it is going through a "bridge" device, be that a USB, Firewire or
something else... then there is every chance that your are being
denied access as it isn't passing through.
Kind Regards
AndrewM
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