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Note on SATA drives
Submitted by Tenzer (registered user) on Mon, 2008-04-21 19:26.
If your hard drive is a SATA drive and is recognized as /dev/sd*, you have to include "-d ata" in the smartctl command, or else it thinks the drive is a SCSI drive and will fail to read any of the useful information. There is more information on that subject here: http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/smartmontools_scsi.html
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