[smartmontools-support] Error with USB-Harddisk since last debian update

[Christian Schumann]

Hello,



since the last update of my debian-system I can't get any smart-infos of one
of my harddisk.



The version is: smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324
[x86_64-linux-4.9.0-0.bpo.6-amd64] (local build)



With the command smartctl -H /dev/sdb I get the message:

/dev/sdb: Unknown USB bridge [0x0bc2:0xab34 (0x100)]

Please specify device type with the -d option.



With the option -d ata I get the error



Read Device Identity failed: Invalid argument

A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T
permissive' options.



And with the option -d scsi I get



=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===

Vendor: Seagate

Product: Backup+ Desk

Revision: 040B

Compliance: SPC-4

User Capacity: 4.000.787.029.504 bytes [4,00 TB]

Logical block size: 512 bytes

Physical block size: 4096 bytes

Device type: disk

Local Time is: Thu May 3 20:02:37 2018 CEST

SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.

SMART support is: Disabled

Temperature Warning: Disabled or Not Supported

Read Cache is: Enabled

Writeback Cache is: Enabled



=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===

SMART Health Status: OK

Current Drive Temperature: 0 C

Drive Trip Temperature: 0 C



Error Counter logging not supported



Device does not support Self Test logging

Device does not support Background scan results logging



With version x86_64-linux-4.9.0-0.bpo.5-amd64 everything works fine.



Christian