Version degradation- cant understand my external USB HDD

Bug #1092882 reported by Jānis Kangarooo
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Bug Description

Toshiba v63600-C 1TB usb external HDD
Formated using DISK Utility with not usual options:
In DISK UTILITY Formated using: Dont partition and & FORMAT VOLUME to FAT (not possible to NTFS)

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/sdc -l

Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 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
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo smartctl -i /dev/sdc
smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [i686-linux-3.2.0-29-generic-pae] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

/dev/sdc: Unknown USB bridge [0x0480:0xa006 (0x001)]
Smartctl: please specify device type with the -d option.

Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo smartctl -s on /dev/sdc
smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [i686-linux-3.2.0-29-generic-pae] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

/dev/sdc: Unknown USB bridge [0x0480:0xa006 (0x001)]
Smartctl: please specify device type with the -d option.

Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: smartmontools 5.41+svn3365-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic-pae 3.2.24
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.315
Date: Fri Dec 21 12:07:00 2012
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120817.3)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: smartmontools
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Revision history for this message
Jānis Kangarooo (kangarooo) wrote :
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Christian Franke (christian-franke) wrote :

This device supports SAT. Its USB Id was added to drivedb.h in r3572:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/changeset/3572

Possible fixes:
- update smartmontools, or
- run /usr/sbin/update-smart-drivedb, or
- use "smartctl -d sat ...".

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