[mythtv-users] [OT] USB enclosure with SMART support?

Rev Simon Rumble simon at rumble.net
Mon Feb 26 01:04:44 UTC 2007


This one time, at band camp, Marco Nelissen wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is such a thing as a USB harddrive enclosure
> that supports SMART? The 2 I've tried don't seem to pass SMART commands
> to the drive, so smartctl just thinks the drive doesn't support it.

No.  USB Mass Storage doesn't support the concept.  Try eSATA for 
external enclosures.

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