Using a USB external enclosure with a PATA hard drive ?

[Jim]

On 02/01/2010 05:24 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Jim<mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net>  wrote:
> [snip]
>    
>> # smartctl --attributes --log=selftest --quietmode=errorsonly /dev/sdc
>> smartctl 5.39 2009-12-09 r2995 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build)
>> Copyright (C) 2002-9 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
>>
>> /dev/sdc: Unknown USB bridge [0x0c0b:0xb157 (0x000)]
>> Smartctl: please specify device type with the -d option.
>>
>>
>> # smartctl --test=long /dev/sdc
>> smartctl 5.39 2009-12-09 r2995 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build)
>> Copyright (C) 2002-9 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
>>
>> /dev/sdc: Unknown USB bridge [0x0c0b:0xb157 (0x000)]
>> Smartctl: please specify device type with the -d option.
>>
>>
>> The USB bridge ,unknown
>> I don't know what they are talking about, and using the -d option and
>> device type.
>>      
> I was hoping someone else would jump in here by now, but the only
> thing I can guess is that the kernel driver for the USB bridge has a
> bug as I would expect the dmesg (or /var/log/messages) to read
> differently if it was unsupported. Do you have another computer
> windows or linux you can try it on? For windows you obviously would
> not be able to mount the filesystem but it should show all the
> partitions in Disk Management.
>
> Richard
>    

I was reading on Google search about a file in Fedora,

/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/99-redhat-storage-policy-fixed-drives.fdi

Is where the settings go for this kind of application. This file in 
Fedora 12 doesn't exist , so I don't know if it would apply to Fedora 12.

Thanks very much for your help Richard.