On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 4:34 AM, Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 12:17:20AM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: >> The hard drive is placed in a Dual Bay external hard drive docking >> station which is connected via USB to my computer. Is that a problem? > > Yes. > >> Is my only option to connect this hard drive internally? How does one >> check the health of a drive connected via USB? > > Some USB<->SATA bridge devices support SMART, but many do not. smartctl > knows how to query SMART parameters for some USB bridges: > > https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Supported_USB-Devices > > In your case, either the bridge doesn't support it, or smartctl does not > know how to query SMART via that particular bridge (but could perhaps be > taught how to by a suitably talented programmer). >
Thanks for all the replies. My USB device is not listed in the above wiki page table or in http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids . I posted a message to smartmontools-database mailing list http://sourceforge.net/p/smartmontools/mailman/message/34625159/ for futher guidance. USB device info: Bus 002 Device 004: ID 152d:1561 JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron USA Technology Corp. In the wiki page, I see that some users had success by using '-d usbjmicron', '-d usbjmicron[,x]', '-d usbjmicron,x' etc., I want to try these options one by one and see which one works. Will the drive get corrupted if I tried the wrong -d option? Any suggestions on which one I should try first? thanks raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi | http://raju.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Blog
