Re: help for documentation
Nathan Stratton Treadway <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.utilities.smartmontools |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 13:34:28 +0100, Bougron Francis wrote: > Hello. > I speak not very well english, so i don't understand thay this sentence > means > > "After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk". > > > The context is > 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. Note that the sentence in question is explaining the meaning of the current value of the "Selective self-test" flags field. In this case, the flag value of all-zero-bits (0x0) is explained as meaning that the drive will NOT continue with a scan of the rest of the disk after completing a selective scan. (The value of this flag only matters if a selective scan self-test is performed, so if you don't use that feature you probably don't care about the flag setting, either.) You can find out more about this flag setting by searching the smartctl man page for the "-t afterselect" option (along with the descriptions of the "-t select..." options). Nathan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nathan Stratton Treadway - [email protected] - Mid-Atlantic region Ray Ontko & Co. - Software consulting services - http://www.ontko.com/ GPG Key: http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt ID: 1023D/ECFB6239 Key fingerprint = 6AD8 485E 20B9 5C71 231C 0C32 15F3 ADCD ECFB 6239 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/