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kasbert / OS-X-SAT-SMART-Driver

Max OS X kernel driver for providing access to external drive SMART data
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SMART STATUS shows not supported #17

Open mik385 opened 10 years ago

mik385 commented 10 years ago

Hi Kasbert, I really need your help here. I have tried install either 0.6 or 0.8 but still don't work for my ext hdd. I have 2 USB drive; WD My Passport for MAC 1TB USB3 & Probox USD3 with 4x4TB WD RED on Mac Mini (Late 2012) running 10.9.2. I see the disk ultility showing smart status not supported and also i tried drive dx & smartreporter also cannot show these external drives. it works for my internal fusion drives on MAC.

Please help me or advise what i should do....

mik385 commented 10 years ago

any advise, please......

JanX2 commented 10 years ago

Some hardware devices (USB/Firewire bridges) don’t support SMART, because they don’t pass the necessary information.

You can try booting your Mac with a Linux live CD and check if the SMART info is visible there. I have been using http://partedmagic.com for this in the past. It has since gone semi-commercial and so I am using an old free version. YMMV.

mik385 commented 10 years ago

The hard drive definitely can pass smart info as in on my windows is it working fine.

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Some hardware devices (USB/Firewire bridges) don’t support SMART, because they don’t pass the necessary information.

You can try booting your Mac with a Linux live CD and check if the SMART info is visible there. I have been using http://partedmagic.com for this in the past. It has since gone semi-commercial and so I am using an old free version. YMMV.

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kasbert commented 10 years ago

WD enclosures usually work without problems. By looking at the smartmontools code, the jmicron based enclosures may need some changes. Specially ones, that have several disks. Problem may be the same with issue #16.

mik385 commented 10 years ago

hmmm how can i do to make it works? Can you advise? Anything i can do for your your troubleshooting?

kasbert commented 10 years ago

There is some experimental JMicron code in version 0.9-Debug. I would be interested in the kernel log messages with it.

You could also check http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/Supported_USB-Devices . If the options column has anyting, but "-d sat", the enclosure does not support SAT and therefore does not work with this driver.