problem with smartmontools 

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

problem with smartmontools 

% 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