Re: long tests automatically get interrupted

Andrew Engelbrecht wrote:
> when i run long tests in debian sid, they usually get interrupted:
>
>> 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%        77         -
>> # 2  Short offline       Completed without error       00%        74         -
>> # 3  Extended captive    Interrupted (host reset)      90%        73         -
>> # 4  Extended captive    Interrupted (host reset)      90%         3         -
>> # 5  Extended offline    Interrupted (host reset)      40%         3         -
>> # 6  Conveyance offline  Completed without error       00%         0         -
>> # 7  Short offline       Completed without error       00%         0         -
> dmesg shows the following line near the interruption time for test #2:
>
>> [153384.901218] usb 1-1.1: reset high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci-pci
> in the one successful long test, i didn't use the "-C" option. in the
> prior test, which was interrupted, i did. for the other interrupted
> tests, i tested it with and without the "-C" option while using an older
> kernel. (perhaps i had "ejected" the disk through the gui before
> starting... i don't actually know, since it was a long time ago.)

Running captive tests via SAT may not work because smartctl does not 
pass a long command timeout to the SCSI pass-through ioctl. And even 
then it would require that the SAT layer in the USB bridge firmware 
supports such long (several hours) timeouts.


Non-captive tests may be interrupted by a standby command sent to the 
drive after some time of I/O inactivity. Many USB bridges do this.

Try to run some script which accesses the drive during the test. This 
may work or not:

while true; do
   dd if=/dev/sdX iflag=direct count=1 of=/dev/null
   sleep 60
done


Thanks,
Christian


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