In the site's comment section I asked as Stefan Nowak whether this code could be used for passing through SMART:Īnd the developer answered within the site's comment section as wagerlabs, that it should work: Until the very recent version of smartmontools (5.39), SMART through USB was not possible on Mac OS X, because the Mac OS X kernel does not support SCSI pass through (reasoning of Christian Franke).Īnd found a person, who wrote a SCSI pass through driver for Mac OS X:
