Ongoing test isn't shown in selftest protocol
Flasher <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.utilities.smartmontools |
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Hello!
I installed a new hard disc in PC and integrated in my
SmartMonTools-Script, which cyclically performs an extended test over
all my hard discs. After some confusion why my script isn't working
correctly any more I found out, that when a start a test it isn't shown
"In progress".
An detailed explanation of my experiment to figure the problem:
I'm starting a new test on my hard disc:
smartctl -t long /dev/sda
Then I check if the test in in progress:
smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda
The result is:
smartctl 6.2 2013-04-20 r3812 [i686-linux-3.11.0-12-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Extended Self-test Log Version: 1 (1 sectors)
Num Test_Description Status Remaining
LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 169 -
As you can see, no test is in progress. But this is wrong. Only one old
(completed) test is shown. When I trigger the test again:
smartctl -t long /dev/sda
I get the following result:
=== START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION ===
Can't start self-test without aborting current test (90% remaining),
add '-t force' option to override, or run 'smartctl -X' to abort test.
It looks like, the test is ongoing, but it it isn't shown in progress
when a do an "smartctl -l selftest". After some time, the triggered test
is correctly shown in the log:
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining
LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 177 -
# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 169 -
To fix the error I also tried an "smartctl -l xselftest /dev/sda". But
the result is the same.
I checked the behavior with two other hard drives (different model and
capacity). Triggering the test and then reading the error log shows me
correctly the "In progress" test:
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining
LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offline Self-test routine in progress 60% 25726 -
# 2 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 25714 -
In the following I added the complete information of an "smartctl -a
/dev/sda":
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Western Digital Caviar Green (AF, SATA 6Gb/s)
Device Model: WDC WD30EZRX-00MMMB0
Serial Number: WD-WCAWZ1204727
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 206330b25
Firmware Version: 80.00A80
User Capacity: 3,000,592,982,016 bytes [3.00 TB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 1.5 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Thu Dec 19 21:33:30 2013 CET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x80) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection:
Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 248) Self-test routine in progress...
80% of test remaining.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (51180) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection
on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 492) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x3035) SCT Status supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED
WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail
Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 143 143 021 Pre-fail
Always - 9816
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
Always - 94
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail
Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age
Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
Always - 180
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age
Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age
Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
Always - 92
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age
Always - 16
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age
Always - 141
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 124 106 000 Old_age
Always - 28
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age
Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age
Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age
Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age
Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age
Offline - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining
LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 177 -
# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 169 -
# 3 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 169 -
# 4 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 169 -
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
Hopefully somebody knows how to fix this problem.
Thank you an best regards,
Andreas
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