[OT] bad disk & MacOS reinstall

[Richard L. Hamilton]

Ok, I tried that driver, and it doesn't work for any external USB I have.

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.
https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Supported_USB-Devices <https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Supported_USB-Devices> should list which drives have the required SCSI/ATA translation support, i.e. may work.

gsmartcontrol crashed on me with

dyld[16578]: Symbol not found: (_gtk_plug_construct)
  Referenced from: '/opt/local/lib/libgtkmm-3.0.1.dylib'
  Expected in: '/opt/local/lib/libgtk-3.0.dylib'
Abort


(this was on Monterey with ports up to date)

but for supported devices, smartctl from the command line works fine.


> On May 17, 2024, at 22:32, Richard L. Hamilton <rlhamil at smart.net> wrote:
> 
> 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).
> 
> It won't work on USB drives without a kernel driver (not available in MacPorts).
> 
> https://binaryfruit.com/drivedx/usb-drive-support <https://binaryfruit.com/drivedx/usb-drive-support> 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.
> 
> 
>> On May 17, 2024, at 18:57, Riccardo Mottola via macports-users <macports-users at lists.macports.org <mailto:macports-users at lists.macports.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Horst Simon wrote:
>>> 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
>> Got a new disk.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> at the end, I changed hard disk and had to reinstall. Now salvaging data.
>> I will reinstall MacPorts from scratch. Safer... and also a "test" like being a new user.
>> 
>> I still am a bit disappointed by SMART.
>> 
>> Does Macports have a tool to get SMART details? On linux  there is one  quite comprehensive!
>> 
>> Riccardo
>> 
> 

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