Re: Ongoing test isn't shown in selftest protocol

Nathan Stratton Treadway <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.utilities.smartmontools
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 00:52:08 -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:
> I just checked a couple of my disks and confirmed that they don't put
> any sort of "in progress" message into the "-l selftest" section,
> either... so perhaps different drives simply behave differently in this
> regard.  (The two drives I checked were very different models, but both
> were WD drives, too.)

In contrast, I located a couple Seagate drives to test with, and found
that while they do put the "in progress" message in the selftest log, it
actually shows up at the bottom of the listing:
=====================
Self-test execution status:      ( 248) Self-test routine in progress...
                                        80% of test remaining.
[...]
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     38160         -
# 2  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     38140         -
# 3  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     38119         -
[...]
# 8  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     38014         -
# 9  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%     37664         -
#10  Extended offline    Self-test routine in progress 80%     47207         -
=====================


When the test completes, the log entries are "rotated" and the test that
just completed moves up to the top:
=====================
Self-test execution status:      (   0) The previous self-test routine completed
                                        without error or no self-test has ever 
                                        been run.
[...]
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%     47208         -
# 2  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     38160         -
# 3  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     38140         -
# 4  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     38119         -
[...]
# 9  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     38014         -
#10  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%     37664         -
=====================


							Nathan

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