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Re: A bad sector checker program in Macs?

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Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage
Subject	Re: A bad sector checker program in Macs?
Date	2017-02-21 20:01 -0500
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In article <0001HW.D4D24B2801474585B02919BF@news.astraweb.com>, Nelson
<nelson@nowhere.com> wrote:

> >> Also, I think all Mac Internal drives implement S.M.A.R.T. which you 
> >> can check.
> > 
> > all drives implement smart. there's nothing special about the ones
> > apple uses.
> 
> That may be true but there appears to be no way to access it on 
> external drives.  None of the disk utilities I have can read it on 
> external Seagate or Western Digital drives.

that's because smart is not supported over usb.

however, some chipsets have added their own support, so depending on
which usb bridge chipset is in your external enclosure and the utility
you are using to read it, it may be possible. otherwise, you'll need to
put the drive directly on a sata/pata bus.

more info here:
<https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/USB>
<https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Supported_USB-Devices>

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A bad sector checker program in Macs? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2017-02-21 01:49 -0800
  Re: A bad sector checker program in Macs? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-21 04:56 -0500
    Re: A bad sector checker program in Macs? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2017-02-21 05:02 -0600
      Re: A bad sector checker program in Macs? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-21 14:50 +0000
      Re: A bad sector checker program in Macs? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2017-02-21 18:49 -0500
  Re: A bad sector checker program in Macs? Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2017-02-21 07:07 -0500
    Re: A bad sector checker program in Macs? Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2017-02-21 12:03 -0500
      Re: A bad sector checker program in Macs? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-21 13:49 -0500
        Re: A bad sector checker program in Macs? Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2017-02-21 19:53 -0500
          Re: A bad sector checker program in Macs? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-21 20:01 -0500
          Re: A bad sector checker program in Macs? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-22 18:05 +0000
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  Re: A bad sector checker program in Macs? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-02-22 00:49 +0000
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