Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

[gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

On 1/17/24 11:38, Curt wrote:
> On 2024-01-17, Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net> wrote:
> > This is just weird.
> > I still have difficulties to believe that any disk manufacturer would
> > hand out disks with colliding serial numbers. I googled for this
> > phenomenon, but except two mails of Gene nothing similar popped up.
>
> I discovered a couple of discussions of the phenomenon, the upshot of which
> were:
>
> 1) That's what you get when you purchase cheap SSDs.
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/truenas/comments/s0rrpo/two_sata_ssds_with_identical_serial_numbers/
>
> 2) SSDs belonging to the same software RAID show identical serial numbers
> in software, but these numbers don't match the serial numbers printed on the SSDs themselves.

But the drives in question are not yet and never have been in a raid 
just plugged in awaiting my putting them to work.
> https://www.reddit.com/r/truenas/comments/s0rrpo/two_sata_ssds_with_identical_serial_numbers/
>
> But you said *similar*. As Gene's threads have too many movable parts
> for me to follow, on that point I couldn't say.
>
> .

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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