Re: Long test taking ages

2016-10-08 20:17 GMT+02:00 Carlos E. R. <[email protected]>:
> I'm not familiar with "-x", I normally use "-a". But let me guess. It
> may be related to the Current_Pending_Sector and Offline_Uncorrectable
> lines in the table of smart attributes.

I don't have them in SAS. smart for SAS is different from SMART for SATA

> If this is what happens to you, it would also explain your problem. When
> the disk hits a bad sector, the system tries several times to read it,
> forcing everything else to wait. Thus other computers in your
> installation would be fine, no bad sectors.

SAS has a "grown list" that should indicate the number of remapped sectors.
In my case, the grown list is 0, but I still have some of that strings
in "-x" output
and I don't know the meaning.

I've opened a thread on smartmon mailing list but nobody is answering.

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