I have a mess of 2tb WD green drives doing some odd stuff. Around 2011 era. Two if them disappear after maxing the bus for a couple minutes and will not reappear on any system checks including ~ fdisk -l ~ until reboot. Another just takes hours to move any data.
My question lies with smartctl and trying to get it to display information. I would like to be able to diagnose these things from a laptop usb, rather then going and screwing around with my desktop and sata there, since there are no spare ports to plug the drive into.
I am running Sabayon Gentoo 4.2 running Gnome.
The drive is going through a SATA to USB 3.0 powered adapter that I have had no problems with previously. Blackbox brand.
So first, fdisk -l outputs this at the end.
Disk /dev/sdb: 1.8 TiB, 2000398932480 bytes, 3907029165 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00098b8e
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 2048 3907026943 3907024896 1.8T 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Now moving into smartctl
igneel shinoa # smartctl -i /dev/sdb
smartctl 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109 [x86_64-linux-4.2.0-sabayon] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-15, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
/dev/sdb: Unknown USB bridge [0x1631:0x3200 (0x1905)]
Please specify device type with the -d option.
Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary
So, it cannot recognize the usb bridge for some reason. Is there a way to use the -d argument to make this work that I am simply overlooking?