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[Carey Underwood <cwillu@xxxxxxxxxx>]

** Summary changed:

- palimpsest do not give smart information to current user for usb connected sata hard drives
+ SMART status is not supported in palimpsest for USB hard-drives

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: gnome-disk-utility
  
- If I connect my hard drive with a usb connector, palimpsest could not
- give me smart information:
- 
- http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/9503/tmpr43k8q.png
- 
- If I'm using smart command line with my usr rights: operation not
- permitted
- 
- But if i'm using smart command line in root, I obtain the smart
- information.
- 
- It is not possible to obtain smart information in palimpsest for current
- user?
+ If I connect my hard drive with a USB connector, palimpsest reports
+ SMART Status as "Not Supported".  However, when using the smartctl
+ command line utility, the correct SMART information is returned for the
+ drive.
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: gnome-disk-utility 2.32.1-0ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Mar 28 00:57:03 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110302)
  ProcEnviron:
-  LANGUAGE=fr:en
-  LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
-  SHELL=/bin/bash
+  LANGUAGE=fr:en
+  LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
+  SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/743927

Title:
  SMART status is not supported in palimpsest for USB hard-drives

Status in “gnome-disk-utility” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gnome-disk-utility

  If I connect my hard drive with a USB connector, palimpsest reports
  SMART Status as "Not Supported".  However, when using the smartctl
  command line utility, the correct SMART information is returned for
  the drive.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: gnome-disk-utility 2.32.1-0ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Mar 28 00:57:03 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110302)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=fr:en
   LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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