root@Tower:~# smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sdb
smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     ST2000DL003-9VT166
Serial Number:    5YD257K5
Firmware Version: CC32
User Capacity:    2,000,398,934,016 bytes
Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   8
ATA Standard is:  ATA-8-ACS revision 4
Local Time is:    Sun Apr 17 16:52:58 2011 EST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

Error SMART Status command failed
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Register values returned from SMART Status command are:
ST =0x40
ERR=0x00
NS =0x88
SC =0x00
CL =0xf4
CH =0xd7
SEL=0x40
A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.
root@Tower:~#