<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_7083"># On a Maxtor M3 2TB (which is not on the DB) I'm trying to check:</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_7083"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_7083">$ sudo smartctl --all /dev/sdb<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8310">smartctl 6.5 2016-01-24 r4214 [x86_64-linux-4.15.0-30-generic] (local build)<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8311">Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8312"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8313"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8314">/dev/sdb: Unknown USB bridge [0x0bc2:0x61b5 (0x1402)]</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8315">Please specify device type with the -d option.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8316"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8317"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8318">Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8318"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8318"># I've read some other Maxtor M3 work with '-d sat', thus:</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8318"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8319">$ sudo smartctl --all -d sat /dev/sdb<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8319"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8393">smartctl 6.5 2016-01-24 r4214 [x86_64-linux-4.15.0-30-generic] (local build)<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8394">Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8395"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8396"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8397">Read Device Identity failed: scsi error unsupported field in scsi command</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8398"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8399"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8400">A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8401"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8402"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8401"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8463">$ sudo smartctl --all -d sat /dev/sdb -T permissive</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8464">smartctl 6.5 2016-01-24 r4214 [x86_64-linux-4.15.0-30-generic] (local build)</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8465">Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8466"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8467"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8468">Read Device Identity failed: scsi error unsupported field in scsi command</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8469"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8470"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8471">=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8472">Device Model: [No Information Found]</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8473">Serial Number: [No Information Found]</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8474">Firmware Version: [No Information Found]</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8475">Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8476">ATA Version is: [No Information Found]</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8477">Local Time is: Sat Aug 11 21:43:24 2018 CEST</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8478">SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 82-83 don't show if SMART supported.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8479">SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 85-87 don't show if SMART is enabled.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8480">A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8481"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8481"># same with '-d sat,12' and '-d sat,16'</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8481"># any idea?</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8481"># Thanks!</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8481"># sverx</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1534016286129_8481"><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>