~ $ sudo smartctl -d sat -a /dev/sda smartctl version 5.37 [i586-mandriva-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: Hitachi HDT725032VLA360 Serial Number: VFD200R21DGMBL Firmware Version: V54OA73A User Capacity: 320,072,933,376 bytes Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 7 ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 1 Local Time is: Tue Oct 23 12:59:00 2007 CEST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Disabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity was never started. Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled. Total time to complete Offline data collection: ( 0) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x00) Offline data collection not supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0000) Automatic saving of SMART data is not implemented. Error logging capability: (0x00) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. SMART Error Log Version: 0 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 0 Warning: ATA Specification requires self-test log structure revision number = 1 No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t] Device does not support Selective Self Tests/Logging ~ $ sudo smartctl -d sat -a /dev/sdb smartctl version 5.37 [i586-mandriva-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: Hitachi HDT725032VLA360 Serial Number: VFD200R216N0GL Firmware Version: V54OA73A User Capacity: 320,072,933,376 bytes Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 7 ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 1 Local Time is: Tue Oct 23 12:59:22 2007 CEST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Disabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity was never started. Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled. Total time to complete Offline data collection: ( 0) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x00) Offline data collection not supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0000) Automatic saving of SMART data is not implemented. Error logging capability: (0x00) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. SMART Error Log Version: 0 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 0 Warning: ATA Specification requires self-test log structure revision number = 1 No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t] Device does not support Selective Self Tests/Logging