I am using a cheap (AliX) USB 3.0 to SATA adapter to test some hard-disks. I want to read their S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) status, and in Linux smartctl from smartmontools is your friend.
Unfortunately the version running on this computer (smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.15.0-136-generic]) doesn't recognize the USB bridge and throws this error:
Unknown USB bridge [0x7825:0xa2a4 (0x4101)]
Well, it looks like the -d sat switch does the trick and I could read and write commands to the disk.
This post is mainly a memo for the future me.
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