Re: about detecting hard drives with problems
Re: about detecting hard drives with problems
Subject : Re: about detecting hard drives with problems From: Dan Shoop <email@hidden >
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:31:32 -0500
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At 1:10 PM -0500 11/21/06, Steven Kolins wrote:
Dan Shoop <email@hidden> writes:
compare
diskutil info /
with
diskutil info disk0 and the second usually reports SMART status.
Volume's
don't do SMART.
It may /appear/ that a volume is a drive, but this is perceptual. Firewire and USB drives will never do SMART. I recall in the OS9 days it was possible to have a machine without the Apple
driver installed.
There are drivers on the device store as partitions, and there are
kexts that are drivers in the OS. The former is no longer necessary in OS X. Often the machine partially worked but reported all manner of
weird errors. This seems really weird that a few machines would indeed report a smart status
if the / was used instead of disk0....
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