Read HDD SMART when in external USB tray possible?

[Kostas K.]

Hello! I wonder if there is any program able to read the S.M.A.R.T. values
of a hardisk that is in an external USB tray. Has anybody tried something
like that?

DiskCheckup by PassMark Software that I use for internal disks cannot even
see the disk. But the disk shows up fine on windows xp device manager as a
USB hard disk.

Thanks in advance for any help

Kostas

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

Hello! I wonder if there is any program able to read the S.M.A.R.T. values
of a hardisk that is in an external USB tray.

Any program can do that *after* someone comes up with a S.M.A.R.T. driver
that hooks up with the USB storage driver.

Has anybody tried something like that?

DiskCheckup by PassMark Software that I use for internal disks cannot
even see the disk.

Probably because they use the standard IDE smartvsd driver.