How to Enable SMART on a device
smartctl -a -d ata -T permissive --smart=on /dev/sda
-d ata is usually required for most SATA drives or you get an error.
-T permissive is required if it's the first time you are running SMART on this device (it's not enough just to enable SMART in the BIOS)
--smart=on is also required for the first time
Tags:
enable, devicesmartctl, ata, permissive, dev, sda, sata, bios,