Mark Lord wrote:
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> Mark Lord wrote:
> I guess it "works" by accident, since the 00 device status
> doesn't have the ATA error bit set.  But I suppose this also
> means that a failed ATA command would not be noticed either..
> At least not without the patch.
Yes that seem to case.
I wonder with the patch doesn't make smartctl work without permisive. 
May be your usb id wasn't in the patch.


Matthieu
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