[Casper] SMART status question

[Jeff Johnson]

I thought of that too - I'm pretty sure that's not the issue. There are a
few USB devices out there but not necessarily connected to the machines
that are generating the SMART status alerts.

Jeff 

"Joseph Thomas" <a10jlt1 at wpo.cso.niu.edu> on Thursday, May 1, 2008 at 8:47
AM -0600 wrote:
>Are the systems in question having flash drives or some other kind of
>non-SMART compliant device plugged in / removed?  This happens in our
>labs on occassion when students use thumb drives to move data around. 
>I've also seen some really strange situations where a tablet device will
>be treated like a storage device that is most definitely NOT SMART
>compliant.