You stated in one of your other threads you are a student. It's good that you have an inquisitive mind. But you seem to be jumping to some ill-founded conclusions based on partial and/or incorrect knowledge of the subject at hand.

Spend some time on Google researching modern operating systems and the trials and tribulations of multithreaded programming. There are many things you have yet to learn in this area ... ☺.

@stephenw10 said in Strange SSD S.M.A.R.T behavior:

I could maybe believe that SMART can talk to the drive differently in the on-board mSATA slot if it has more pins connected. Like maybe over smbus/i2c.

This is a plausible explanation.

Though I don't know why it would return different values.

I can only explain (this is a early produced SSD from about 2009) this to me with a faulty firmware ...

Strange, Strange ...

It''s probably detailed in the, now pretty ancient, thread:
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/7467/firebox-lcd-driver-for-lcdproc

I'm not sure if you could use a USB adapter. the driver is hard coded to the use the default parallel port I/O address. Your board probably still has that device even if it's not actually exposed anywhere.

Steve

Very detailed instructions! Thank you!

I use this.... works perfectly with Pfsense and no need for PoE switch

https://www.asus.com/Networking-IoT-Servers/Range-Extenders-/All-series/RP-AX56/

Fixed IP and 1 on every floor.

..... and he opened a second account spamming the same stuff. We are done here!