Timeline for What determines whether S.M.A.R.T. data can be retrieved from an external USB drive?
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| Jul 31, 2012 at 23:04 | comment | added | Michael Hampton | Long-term, moving to eSATA enclosures solves this problem. | |
| Jul 31, 2012 at 21:06 | answer | added | iolsmit | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 2, 2010 at 21:47 | comment | added | Moab | More than likely it is the USB to PATA controller that cannot interface with SMART in PATA drives, not the drive itself. Not all PATA drives had SMART technology. There were a bunch of different usb to pata chips, here are a few of the most common, Oxford, ALI, TI, Cypress. | |
| Jul 2, 2010 at 19:06 | comment | added | quack quixote | iirc, USB Mass Storage is one of the official USB device classes. read through the various specs; they're enlightening: usb.org/developers/docs | |
| Jul 2, 2010 at 18:55 | history | asked | irrational John | CC BY-SA 2.5 |