-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2008-06-27 at 19:25 -0000, Jim Henderson wrote:
I haven't seen any usb HD on which smart is supported :-(
They use a very cheap chipset, I suppose.
Yeah, the interface doesn't support it, but the drive's on-board electronics are typically SATA or IDE (these are old enough they're probably IDE) and do support it. Just no interface via USB to turn it on in most cases.
For that reason the external HD boxes I buy now have both usb and sata interfaces, so that I can run smart tests on them. I still haven't tested this feature, I need to add a sata card to my PC. The other thing is to see if I can find boxes with the usb chipset Per said. I have some reading to do. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIZUcktTMYHG2NR9URAsm5AJ0b7RK2KchYtRhHWxTemzZKmwneZgCgiSM8 GRGuD2yZbuJyv/zUfiRnIPk= =zK2s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org