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From: bbbl67 on 21 Mar 2010 10:56
On Mar 20, 9:25 am, Christian Franke <Christian.Fra...(a)t-online.de>
wrote:
> Yousuf Khan wrote:
> > Frank Williams wrote:
>
> >> The problem is that most SMART monitors do not work on USB drives.
>
> > Seagate's SeaTools seem to work on a lot of USB drives. And HDD Scan
> > seems to work too. At one time, HD Sentinel was the be-all-end-all of
> > USB-based SMART reporting, but there are others now.
>
> This is because many recent USB->SATA bridges support SAT (SCSI/ATA
> Translation) standard or vendor specific ATA pass-through commands.
>
> See:http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/USBhttp://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/Supported_USB-Dev...
>
> --
> Regards,
> Christian Franke

Interesting, good to know.

Yousuf Khan
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