On Sun, 29 Sep 2019 at 21:22, Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
On 9/29/19 12:33 PM, Frédéric wrote:
I put the disk in a USB3.1 box. It says: smartctl 7.0 2019-03-31 r4903 [x86_64-linux-5.2.13-200.fc30.x86_64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-18, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke,
www.smartmontools.org
/dev/sda: USB to NVMe bridge [please try '-d sntjmicron' and report result to: smartmontools-support@listi.jpberlin.de] Please specify device type with the -d option. Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary
The other new one gives much more information. I should probably try when plugged directly to the mother card.
smartctl doesn't usually work well when the drive is attached using USB.
"Usually doesn't work" is a bit strong. With current hardware I'd say it usually does work with USB. See: https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/USB for details. The big problem is that low-end vendors don't tell you what chipset they use, and sometimes the same model USB case is sold with a variety of chipsets, so you can't count on smartmon support even if it works with the last case you bought.