How to enable SMART?

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Published on 2012-10-28T09:48:54Z Indexed on 2012/10/28 11:21 UTC
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I want to conduct a SMART test on my drive but it was disabled. So, i used

sudo smartctl -s on /dev/sda 

but the result was

smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [i686-linux-3.2.0-26-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF ENABLE/DISABLE COMMANDS SECTION ===
Error SMART Enable failed: scsi error aborted command
Smartctl: SMART Enable Failed.

A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.

How to overcome this problem?

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