dumping large partition to USB drive fails

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Thursday 28 June 2007 01:33, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 05:11:23PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> > Well, camcontrol didn't work either. :-(
>
> This doesn't come as much of a surprise; camcontrol expects to talk
> to a native SCSI device (your drive is ATA).  atacontrol expects to
> talk to a native ATA device, but via adXX, not via umass or any other
> USB interface.
>
> I don't know of any software even on Windows (for comparison) that
> lets you get SMART stats off of an ATA drive in a USB enclosure via
> USB.

Speedfan (http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php) lets you read SMART off 
HDs.

Also I don't think smartctl or FreeBSD are to blame for the inability to 
send SMART commands to the HD - it is the enclosures fault for not 
remapping the commands. (Which should be trivial, the commands are 
identical just the transport is different)

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