Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:05:39 -0700
> Having trouble getting my SATA WD raptor 150G drive smart enabled. > I'm pretty sure that Western Digital drives have smart support? > > # smartctl -i /dev/sda
Google is friend. I was missing the "-d ata" part in the command.
# smartctl -i -d ata /dev/sda
% smartctl -i -d ata /dev/sda smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Maxtor DiamondMax 10 family Device Model: Maxtor 6B200M0 Serial Number: B405M10H Firmware Version: BANC1B10 User Capacity: 203,928,109,056 bytes Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 7 ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 0 Local Time is: Sun Jul 29 17:12:38 2007 EDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled
% uname -rm 2.6.17-grml i686
documented on: 2007.07.29