<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 9:20 PM Dachshund Digital <<a href="mailto:dachshund.digital@dc.rr.com">dachshund.digital@dc.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Have an old IDE drive in an older USB 2 disk enclosure, of course this <br>
is not SATA, so no surprise it is not SMART capable. But how can <br>
smartctl report health OK if no SMART? </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Why would you assume that this drive has no SMART at all? Just because the SMART ATA attributes are not showing up?</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Elements in grown defect list: 0<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is typically an output from a SCSI device.</div><div><br></div><div>So yes, this drive is clearly from an older generation, but smartctl is able to read some information, able to indicate the drive's health.</div><div>Never assume 100% accuracy on the reported data though.<br></div></div></div>