<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Ok, I tried that driver, and it doesn't work for any external USB I have.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">An external Thunderbolt drive should just work, no driver for SMART support needed. My LaCie did, anyway - on the Thunderbolt interface, using Apple's Thunderbolt 2 to 3 adapter. Though that drive had a USB interface too, SMART support did not work on there.</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Supported_USB-Devices" class="">https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Supported_USB-Devices</a> should list which drives have the required SCSI/ATA translation support, i.e. may work.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">gsmartcontrol crashed on me with</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">dyld[16578]: Symbol not found: (_gtk_plug_construct)<br class=""> Referenced from: '/opt/local/lib/libgtkmm-3.0.1.dylib'<br class=""> Expected in: '/opt/local/lib/libgtk-3.0.dylib'<br class="">Abort<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(this was on Monterey with ports up to date)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">but for supported devices, smartctl from the command line works fine.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 17, 2024, at 22:32, Richard L. Hamilton <<a href="mailto:rlhamil@smart.net" class="">rlhamil@smart.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">The port smartmontools includes the command line tool. The port gsmartcontrol provides a GUI on top of that, if you want (I've never tried the latter).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It won't work on USB drives without a kernel driver (not available in MacPorts).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://binaryfruit.com/drivedx/usb-drive-support" class="">https://binaryfruit.com/drivedx/usb-drive-support</a> may have links and instructions (that site is for a paid product but the kernel driver is open source). I haven't tried that, and in particular don't have High Sierra to try it on.</div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 17, 2024, at 18:57, Riccardo Mottola via macports-users <<a href="mailto:macports-users@lists.macports.org" class="">macports-users@lists.macports.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi,<br class=""><br class="">Horst Simon wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I had todo a re-install on my 2010 MacBook Pro with High Sierra from scratch, my copy of High sierra I had was corrupted and caused my all kind of grief. I finally downloaded a new copy on my iMac using the command line<br class=""></blockquote>Got a new disk.<br class=""><br class="">Using recovery partition I tried to dump/restore the partiton... but half during the process I got a disk error and the process aborted. Proof that it is gone.<br class=""><br class="">at the end, I changed hard disk and had to reinstall. Now salvaging data.<br class="">I will reinstall MacPorts from scratch. Safer... and also a "test" like being a new user.<br class=""><br class="">I still am a bit disappointed by SMART.<br class=""><br class="">Does Macports have a tool to get SMART details? On linux there is one quite comprehensive!<br class=""><br class="">Riccardo<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>