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On Windows, smartctl aborts with the message “…SMART_GET_VERSION failed”. What is going wrong?

April 26, 2017aborts going message smartctl Windows wrong

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On Windows, smartctl aborts with the message “…SMART_GET_VERSION failed”. What is going wrong?

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A failing extLink: SMART_GET_VERSION call means that the device driver does not implement the I/O controls (see below) to access ATA SMART functionality. Some Windows drivers for (S)ATA controllers are implemented as SCSI class drivers. This is usually the case for drivers which support RAID. Unfortunately, such drivers do not support the ATA specific SMART I/O controls.