Problems reading SMART data in HDTune 2.55 free edition

[VirtualLarry]

Previously, I had started a sub-thread in a thread here about my ThermalTake BlacX USB + eSATA not passing SMART data through.

Well, I just got a Rosewill Blackhawk case, which includes a SATA dock at the top of the case.

I plugged the SATA cable in the case that goes to the dock into the same controller port that I had my eSATA bracket connected to.

I don't think that there is any chip or anything in the eSATA dock, just a straight wiring job.

Well, I cannot seem to read the "Health" (SMART) data in HDTune 2.55 free edition on the drive in the dock either.

So perhaps I was wrong, and there is nothing in the ThermalTake BlacX that blocks SMART data.

Perhaps HDTune free, only reads SMART data off of the OS boot drive. Or perhaps it only works for drives configured as IDE, and not as AHCI (most likely scenario, I think).

 

[Elixer]

Use CrystalDiskInfo 4.
It is free, and open sourced, and better.

 

[WT]

Use CrystalDiskInfo 4.
It is free, and open sourced, and better.

+1 :thumbsup:
I used this software earlier this week to diagnose a bad drive I picked up. I had tried Seagate's own SeaTools but that POS software for one does not support external drives, nor does it work on Win 7 64 without a workaround hack.
Consider me a firm supporter of CrystalDiskInfo after this episode with SeaTools.