NF-7S Can't read SMART on 2nd SATA HD

"Bjarke Ravn-Jonsen" <usenet.TakeThisOut@mandril.invalid> wrote in message
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 > Leadfoot <nospam.TakeThisOut@nospam.com> typed:
  > > I've tried several different S.M.A.R.T utilities and get them to see
  > > the second SATA hard drive. They ususally see two hard drives but
  > > the second HD info is a mirror of the first right down to the serial
  > > number.
 >
 > I had the same problem, when reading the temp of my two hdd'. It was a
sata
 > seagate 120 Gb, and a 60 gb pata seagate on the pata->sata converter from
 > abit.
 > I just thougth it was because of the converter, so I went back to useing
 > only one sata chan.

I thought I had seen a post on this subject a while back I just can't think
of a good search term to find it without wading through 10,000 other posts.

It's why I think its related to being a limitation of the Silicon Image chip

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"Leadfoot" wrote in message...
 > It's why I think its related to being a limitation of the Silicon Image
 > chip

Can't really call it a "limitation". SMART is a dead standard, and support
for it is steadily being dropped from controllers *and* drives. May simply
be that the newer drive doesn't support it, although you can confirm that by
swapping them round on the controller.
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"Richard Hopkins" <richh DeleteThis @dsl.popex.co.uk> wrote in message
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 > "Leadfoot" wrote in message...
  > > It's why I think its related to being a limitation of the Silicon Image
  > > chip
 >
 > Can't really call it a "limitation". SMART is a dead standard, and support
 > for it is steadily being dropped from controllers *and* drives. May simply
 > be that the newer drive doesn't support it, although you can confirm that
by
 > swapping them round on the controller.

Did the swap and I now see the SMART data for this drive. Still wondering
what the limitaion is.




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