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nwipe secure disk eraser
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PDF report enhancement: Enable smart data if available and supported prior to printing report. #629

Open PartialVolume opened 1 week ago

PartialVolume commented 1 week ago

I've came across a minority of drives that support smart data but have it disabled. This enhancement will detect a drive that supports smart data but has smart data disabled and enable it before creating the PDF report/certificate.

Firminator commented 4 days ago

Yes I can confirm this. I've seen multiple (older) drives with this behaviour in a span of 5 years when I was using PartedMagic (as an alternative to when DBAN wouldn't work). gsmartcontrol included in PartedMagic would have a field called SMART enabled and it would show as unchecked (and no SMART data like Temp. or PowerOn Hours or Number of Reallocated Sectors was shown) , however I was able to checkbox it, and afterwards the SMART data would populate. Really odd. I was always wondering what's causing this. Thanks for implementing the check for this behaviour and 'fixing'/enabling SMART.