Quando você executa o update-smart-drivedb, ele faz o download do banco de dados mais recente do site de origem para smartmontools, em teoria, mais recente do que qualquer backport.
Você deve ter um tempo razoável se entrar em contato diretamente com eles.
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Device Information
If your drive is not in the current version of smartmontools drive database you can help to improve smartmontools information by sending a report about your drive to our mailinglist smartmontools-database.
We collect info about USB devices that have been successfully or unsuccessfully tested with smartmontools. If you have a device not listed there, please tell us the test result, by editing the wiki page, and/or by sending an email to the smartmontools-database mailinglist.